... the usual suspect scientific and technical conundrums which the techdysiasts would have us address are defined and constrained far more by their social and political dimensions than by the hard science issues at their core. Fixing climate change, poverty, or even global financial regulation is not merely a problem of finding the correct solution to a thorny technical problem. These big issues are big because they entail questions of philosophy, ideology, justice, the proper form of society, and even culture. The underlying science is almost trivial compared to the value questions at stake.That's the Epicurean Dealmaker.
I am grateful for, among many other things, a broad formal education, as well as the unprecedented opportunity to continue learning through the blogosphere. Happy Thanksgiving.
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