Imagined Worlds by Dyson Freeman (97 results)

Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Fifth Printing. This is a Fine condition hard cover in a Very Good + condition dust jacket. isbn: 0-674-53908-7 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Essays on the near future by a noted scientist. Clean, unmarked copy with only light wear to dust jacket. Record # 951045.

Hard Cover in Dj. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. (vo, hardcover in dj. inscribed, ow. as new. 216 pages. Published in 1997. Retrospective collection of essays. The definitive transcript of Freeman Dyson's epochal Jerusalem/Harvard Lectures. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Freeman Dyson's "Imagined Worlds: The Jerusalem Harvard Lectures". By critical consensus, his most visionary book. It is tempered, as always - and as very rarely found in other scientists, technocrats, and academics - by his profound humanism. Few scientists have railed vehemently against science worship or "scientism", the reigning ideology of both academe and big business, as Freeman Dyson, and at the same time, sought to harness science and technology to positive, imagined ends that surpass in their breathtaking vision everything science fiction has imagined thus far. "Freeman Dyson has been helping us see ourselves and our world from a scientist's point-of-view. He brings this perspective to a speculative future to show us where science and technology may be taking us. Whether looking at Gaia Theory or the future of nuclear weapons, Dyson is concerned with how we might mitigate the evil consequences of technology and enhance the good instead. Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-million fold, or evolving new, distinct species. Consider the technology of space colonization, computer-assisted reproduction, the "Martian potato." One hundred years after H. G. Wells visited the future in The Time Machine, Freeman Dyson marshals his uncommon gifts as a scientist and storyteller to take us once more to that ever-closer, ever-receding time to come. Since Disturbing the Universe, the book that first brought him international renown, Freeman Dyson has been helping us see ourselves and our world from a scientist's point of view. In Imagined Worlds he brings this perspective to a speculative future to show us where science and technology, real and imagined, may be taking us. The stories he tells--about "Napoleonic" versus "Tolstoyan" styles of doing science; the coming era of radioneurology and radiotelepathy; the works of writers from Aldous Huxley to Michael Crichton to William Blake; Samuel Gompers and the American labor movement--come from science, science fiction, and history. Sharing in the joy and gloom of these sources, Dyson seeks out the lessons we must learn from all three if we are to understand our future and guide it in hopeful directions. Whether looking at the Gaia theory or the future of nuclear weapons, science fiction or the dangers of "science worship," sea-going kayaks or the Pluto Express, Dyson is concerned with ethics, with how we might mitigate the evil consequences of technology and enhance the good. At the heart of it all is the belief once expressed by the biologist J. B. S. Haldane, that progress in science will bring enormous confusion and misery to humankind unless it is accompanied by progress in ethics. About the Author: Freeman Dyson is Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Imagined Worlds OIP Special Collection by Freeman Dyson. Published by Harvard University Press in 1998. Paperback. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in very fine condition.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; [SIGNED] 1997 Harvard University Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by Dyson on the half-title page. Snug and neat in generally sharp edged color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $22.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Mild shelf bump top front corner. Jacket a trifle sunned at spine and with superficial shelf rubbing to surfaces. VG+/VG; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue covers half clothbound in black are mostly clean. Corners are sharp. Spine has metallic blue text and is bright with firm ends. Binding is strong. Blue end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear. Signed and inscribed on half title page. See photos. Illustrations are bright and clear. Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Illustrated DJ looks great behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper. Close examination of DJ reveals light edgewear including possible bumps, rubbing, and/or tiny closed tears.** PS2023.0420** 216 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches** Originally a series of lectures given at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1995. Dyson explores the interplay of science and technology with evolution and ethics, drawing on case studies and fiction. (Introduction)** Signed and inscribed by author on half-title page.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009686"**. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED and dated on title page--visible in photo. Francis Crick's copy with his ink stamp on front free endpaper--visible in photo. In 2012 my friend Dennis Wills bought Francis Crick's library from his son Michael. Freeman Dyson was a frequent visitor to D.G. Wills Books when he was in La Jolla, and signed it on a visit in 2011. SECOND PRINTING of the first edition, 1997, same year as the first printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 216 pages. Published in 1997. Retrospective collection of essays. The definitive transcript of Freeman Dyson's epochal Jerusalem/Harvard Lectures. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Freeman Dyson's "Imagined Worlds: The Jerusalem Harvard Lectures". By critical consensus, his most visionary book. It is tempered, as always - and as very rarely found in other scientists, technocrats, and academics - by his profound humanism. Few scientists have railed vehemently against science worship or "scientism", the reigning ideology of both academe and big business, as Freeman Dyson, and at the same time, sought to harness science and technology to positive, imagined ends that surpass in their breathtaking vision everything science fiction has imagined thus far. "Freeman Dyson has been helping us see ourselves and our world from a scientist's point-of-view. He brings this perspective to a speculative future to show us where science and technology may be taking us. Whether looking at Gaia Theory or the future of nuclear weapons, Dyson is concerned with how we might mitigate the evil consequences of technology and enhance the good instead. At the heart of it all is the belief that progress in science will bring enormous confusion and misery to Mankind unless it is accompanied by progress in ethics" (Publisher's blurb). "With a rare breadth of literary and historical knowledge, and with a wonderful lucidity of style, Dyson converts science from the intellectual property of specialists into a meaningful concern for everyone with a stake in our cultural future" (Bryce Christensen). The preliminary and self-proclaimed corporate philosophy of Google was "Do No Evil". Whether technocrats Larry Page and Sergey Brin have remained true or not to their credo - they have not -, there is no question that their credo is adopted entirely from Dyson's ethical perspective, not from their Stanford science-cum-technology bias. The irrepressible Freeman Dyson died on February 28, 2020 at the age of 96. The sheer velocity of his genius-mind will be missed. An absolute "must-have" title for Freeman Dyson collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Freeman Dyson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He signed on top of the page, making it even more prominent. Laid-in is a lovely 4 X 6 Souvenir Color Photograph of Freeman Dyson during the signing event. This title is a great book. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest scientist/thinkers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER FREEMAN DYSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0674539087. Signed by Author.