Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUMMonday, April 3, 2000 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 AuditoriumRichard Rhodes"Visions of (20th Century) Technology"ABSTRACT -- The Western world argued passionately about technology -- what it is, where it's going, whether it's good or bad for us -- throughout the 20th century, even while inventing it at a ferocious and accelerating rate. Mr. Rhodes will read and perform selected excerpts from his anthology Visions of Technology, not all of them serious, and will comment along the way. SPEAKER -- Richard Rhodes is
the author of 17 books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and a National Book Award,
and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, a Pulitzer finalist
in History. His most recent book is Why They Kill: The Discoveries
of a Maverick Criminologist. He lives inside a wildlife preserve
in rural Connecticut with his wife Ginger, a psychologist and private pilot.
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