The New Atlantis; A Journal of Technology & Society, Number 27, Spring 2010
Washington DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 135, [1] pages. Illustrations. The New Atlantis, founded in 2003, is a quarterly journal about the social, ethical, political, and policy dimensions of modern science and technology. The journal’s name is taken from Francis Bacon’s novella New Atlantis, which its editors describe as a story "of a society living with the benefits and challenges of advanced science and technology." An editorial in the inaugural issue states that the aim of the Journal is "to help us avoid the extremes of euphoria and despair that new technologies too often arouse; and to help us judge when mobilizing our technological prowess is sensible or necessary, and when the preservation of things that count requires limiting the kinds of technological power that would lessen, cheapen, or ultimately destroy us." Writing for National Review, editor Adam Keiper described The New Atlantis as being written from a "particularly American and conservative way of thinking about both the blessings and the burdens of modern science and technology." Included in this issue are articles entitled: NASA at the Crossroads by Robert Zubrin, Why Not Nuclear Disarmament? by Christopher Ford, Just War and Islamist Terror by Keith Pavlischek and Hillel Ofek, Making Heroes of Inventors by William Rosen, Science and the Romantics by Algis Valiunas, Undoing Obamacare by David Gratzer, and Avatar and the Flight from Reality by James Bowman. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: NASA, Robert Zubrin, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Disarmament, Christopher Ford, Just War, Islamist Terrorism, Keith Pavlischek, Hillel Ofek, Inventors, Heroes, William Rosen, Science, Romantics, Algis Valiunas, Avatar, James Bowman, Obamacare, David Gra
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