Freeman Dyson | A Pardee Distinguished Lecture

Freeman Dyson on Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society

Eminent physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson makes a case for the need for heretics to help keep our vision of the future open and offers ‘heresies’ on such diverse topics as the United States’ status as “top nation,” global warming, and the end of Darwinian evolution. He suggests that much of the current “fuss over global warming” is exaggerated. He suggests that the increased attention to global warming takes away attention from other more pressing issues such as poverty.

Dyson believes that increased use of bio-technology and “green-technology” can foster better land management, which will help pull rural people out of poverty and lessen consumption of fossil fuels.

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