Of course, we run the risk of inflating the impact of new trends, inventions and discoveries, too. Nevertheless, there is much to look ahead to, from nanotechnology to robotics to computing and medical breakthroughs to our personal and societal adaptations. These are important questions when dealing with issues like genetic engineering or robotics. For these and other reflections, see our Special Focus. William A. Dembski Dembski examines the metaphor common to scientific and philosophical discussions of the person that man is a kind of machine and criticizes this view as entirely inadequate.
Current technology transfers messages at a blistering pace.
Modern science provides guidance on where we came from and how we should live. From a Web site designed to prepare believers for a new paradigm that will affect the way religion and the Church universal are understood. Stephen M. Barr Barr reviews Maddox's chronicle of the last 300 years of scientific discovery and his predictions for the future of science. Privacy 2000 First Things, January 1997 Kerby Anderson looks at the loss of privacy and discusses such issues as the National ID card, wire taps, Carnivore, and encryption. Leon R. Kass Kass reviews Huxley's disturbingly prescient view of a pleasure-driven, engineered society.