Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Crime of ReasonCondition: NewSubtitle: And the Closing of the Scientific MindISBN-10: 0465020283EAN: 9780465020287ISBN: 9780465020287Publisher: Basic BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/28/2010Description: We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, acquiring information is becoming a danger or even a crime. Increasingly, the really valuable information is private property or a state secret, with the result that it is now easy for a flash of insight, entirely innocently, to infringe a patent or threaten national security. The public pays little attention because this vital information is technical",but, Laughlin argues, information is often labeled technical so it can be sequestered, not sequestered because it's technical. The increasing restrictions on information in such fields as cryptography, biotechnology, and computer software design are creating a new Dark Age: a time characterized not by light and truth but by disinformation and ignorance. Thus we find ourselves dealing more and more with the Crime of Reason, the antisocial and sometimes outright illegal nature of certain intellectual activities. The Crime of Reason is a reader-friendly jeremiad, On Bullshit for the Slashdot and Creative Commons crowd: a short, fiercely argued essay on a problem of increasing concern to people at the frontiers of new ideas.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Robert B. LaughlinGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Crime of Reason
Title: The Crime of Reason
Subtitle: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind
ISBN-10: 0465020283
EAN: 9780465020287
ISBN: 9780465020287
Release Date: 12/28/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Crime of Reason : and the Closing of the Scientific Mind
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: Knowledge Capital, Civil Rights, General, Public Policy / Social Policy, Technical Writing
Item Height: 0.5 in
Genre: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science, Education, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Author: Robert B. Laughlin
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
