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Preface
Science is learning and knowing. Technology is doing. Together they give humanity immense abilities to
meet its needs and shape its world. Theyenable us in a myriad ways.

Some of those ways surprise us, for new abilities may make it possible to ask questions that it never
before made sense to ask (think of the way medical technology makes it possible to keep people “alive”
on machines long after the brain has quit working; are such people really alive?). New abilities may
therefore change old values. As values change, so may lifeways, customs, traditions, and dogmas; to
some, science and technology rock the foundations of the world.

Perhaps unfortunately, most scientists and technologists do not spend much time considering such
impacts of their work. They leave it to others—to philosophers, ethicists, politicians, evangelists, activists,
journalists, and science fiction writers. To my mind, that last group is the most useful; its best members
are more forward-looking, more creative, more insightful, and much better at bringing dry, abstract issues