Technology will set us free — but new moral issues arise.

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Title: Technology will set us free — but new moral issues arise.
Authors: Martin Rees
Source: Evening Standard. 10/18/2013, p14. 1p.
Abstract: SCIENTISTS have a rotten record as forecasters. Only a decade before the first atomic bomb, Lord Rutherford, the greatest physicist of his time, said nuclear energy was "moonshine". And one of my predecessors as Astronomer Royal said, as late as the Fifties, that space travel was "utter bilge". [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Abstract:SCIENTISTS have a rotten record as forecasters. Only a decade before the first atomic bomb, Lord Rutherford, the greatest physicist of his time, said nuclear energy was "moonshine". And one of my predecessors as Astronomer Royal said, as late as the Fifties, that space travel was "utter bilge". [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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