just turn it into pure evil now you know i'm a very big fan of isaac asimov and he once said that this saddest thing about our time and he was speaking permanently about the 20th century is that science gathers no it's faster than society gathers wisdom do you see that speed of scientific discovery as the main culprit for allowing this hijacking of the scientific genius or is it something else. i think that's a really good point because there are so many cases where our technological abilities have developed so quickly but we don't have necessarily the moral framework or the societal structures to to use those things wisely look at nuclear weapons as an example of this where you know world war 2 wasn't that long ago that was during my parents' lifetime and that's when nuclear weapons were developed and in fact my great grandfather was in charge of the chemistry division the manhattan projects i'm very familiar with this and yet they became this global scourge ever since world war 2 and we really don't as a species have the wisdom to have things like weapons of mass destruction the same

i'm sure you know that asimov apart from being a great writer was also a professor of biochemistry but he and many others tend to approach the 20th century through the prism of physics and engineering you know nuclear weapons as you mentioned telecommunications mass transport and what have you and i think this is why your book is so unique because it offers a totally different than kitsch point and all those inventions. great. the physics that i mentioned all tingly laughter very noticeable chemical traces then they they did i think most people are quite familiar with the major physical advances like nuclear energy nuclear weapons and it's easier for people to relate that to that than it is to the chemical innovations in fact if you go back and look at rachel carson seminal book silent spring which was published in 1062 she talks about radioactive fallout a great deal before she brings up the very 1st example of a pesticide in the book and that was because everybody was scared of that in 1962 and you know throughout my childhood as well ever scared of nuclear war scared of nuclear fall

in and just turn it into pure evil now you know i'm a very big fan of issac asimov he once said that the saddest thing about our time and he was speaking personally about the 20th century is that science gathers no it's faster than society gathers wisdom genius see that speed of scientific discovery as the main culprit for allowing this hijacking all the scientific genius or is it something else i think that's a really good point because there's so many cases where our technological abilities have developed so quickly but we don't have necessarily the moral framework or the societal structures to to use those things wisely look at nuclear weapons as an example of this where you know world war 2 wasn't that long ago that was during my parents' lifetime and that's when nuclear weapons were developed and in fact my great grandfather was in charge of the chemistry division the manhattan project so i'm very familiar with this and yet they became this global scourge ever since world war 2 and we really don't as a species have the wisdom to have things like weapons of mass destruction the s

you know and just turn it into pure evil now you know i'm a very big fan of issac asimov and he once said that this saddest thing about our time and he was speaking permanently about the 20th century is that science gathers no it's faster than society gathers wisdom do you see that speed of scientific discovery as the main culprit for allowing this hijacking of the scientific genius or is it something else. i think that's a really good point because there's so many cases where our technological abilities have developed so quickly but we don't have necessarily the moral framework or the societal structures to to use those things wisely look at nuclear weapons as an example of this where you know world war 2 wasn't that long ago that was during my parents' lifetime and that's when nuclear weapons were developed and in fact my great grandfather was in charge of the chemistry division the manhattan projects i'm very familiar with this and yet they became this global scourge ever since world war 2 and we really don't as a species have the wisdom to have things like weapons of mass destruc

just turn it into pure evil now you know i'm a very big fan of isaac asimov and he once said that the saddest thing about our time and he was speaking permanently about the 20th century is that science gathers know much faster than society gathers wisdom do you see that speed of scientific discovery as the main culprit for allowing this hijacking of the scientific genius or is it something else. i think that's a really good point because there are so many cases where our technological abilities have developed so quickly but we don't have necessarily the moral framework or the societal structures to to use those things wisely look at nuclear weapons as an example of this where you know world war 2 wasn't that long ago that was during my parents' lifetime and that's when nuclear weapons were developed and in fact my great grandfather was in charge of the chemistry division the manhattan project so i'm very familiar with this and yet they became this global scourge ever since world war 2 and we really don't as a species have the wisdom to have things like weapons of mass destruction the

i'm sure you know that asimov apart from being a great writer was also a professor of biochemistry but he had many others to. approach the 20th century through the prism of physics and engineering you know nuclear weapons as you mention telecommunications mass transport and what have you and i think this is why your book is so unique because it offers a totally different than kitsch point and all those inventions. and great inventions of physics that i mentioned all the time with laughter very noticeable chemical traces then they they did i think most people are quite familiar with the major physical advances like nuclear energy nuclear weapons and it's easier for people to relate that to that than it is to the chemical innovations in fact if you go back and look at rachel carson seminal book silent spring which was published in 162 she talks about radioactive fallout a great deal before she brings up the very 1st example of a pesticide in the book and that was because everybody was scared of that in 1962 and you know throughout my childhood as well ever scared of nuclear war scared of

i'm sure you know that asimov apart from being a great writer was also a professor of biochemistry but he had many others tend to approach the 20th century through the prism of physics and engineering you know nuclear weapons as you mentioned telecommunications mass transport and what have you and i think this is why your book is so unique because it offers a totally different than touch point and all those inventions. and great inventions of physics that i mentioned all the time with 3 laughed very noticeable chemical traces then they they did i think most people are quite familiar with the major physical advances like nuclear energy nuclear weapons and it's easier for people to relate that to that than it is to the chemical innovations in fact if you go back and look at rachel carson seminal book silent spring which was published in 1062 she talks about radio. active fall out a great deal before she brings up the very 1st it example of a pesticide in the book and that was because everybody was scared of that in 1962 and you know throughout my childhood as well ever scared of nuclear