Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (1924), Daedalus, Retrieved on 2015-01-24
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    24 JAN 2015

     Prescience of Genetic Engineering

    As a matter of fact it was not until 1940 that Selkovski invented the purple alga Porpbyrococcus fixator which was to have so great an effect on the world's history. . . . Porpbyrococcus is an enormously efficient nitrogen-fixer and will grow in almost any climate where there are water and traces of potash and phosphates in the soil, obtaining its nitrogen from the air. It has about the effect in four days that a crop of vetches would have had in a year. . . . The enormous fall in food prices...
    Folksonomies: futurism science fiction
    Folksonomies: futurism science fiction
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    A science fiction vision.

    24 JAN 2015

     How Science Changes Virtues to Offense

    The scientific worker is brought up with the moral values of his neighbours. He is perhaps fortunate if he does not realize that it is his destiny to turn good into evil. An alteration in the scale of human power will render actions bad which were formerly good. Our increased knowledge of hygiene has transformed resignation and inaction in face of epidemic disease from a religious virtue to a justly punishable offence. We have improved our armaments, and patriotism, which was once a flame upo...
    Folksonomies: science futurism
    Folksonomies: science futurism
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