When it's time for me to walk away from something I walk away from it. My mind my body my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment caused by nature or the universe or technology what readers want to see is how people cope and so the character are present to cope or fail to cope.
You can't stop technology or science and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that hey this is interesting but maybe I could do something here too.
I have taught history on the high school and college levels and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian The National Institutes of Health and numerous colleges and universities mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that if used for military purposes they can wipe out our entire civilization.
I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science technology engineering and mathematics all rolled into one.
In consequence science is more important than ever for industrial technology.
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology yet most of us are alienated from science.