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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering Colloquium
Date: Monday, April 3, 2000
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.
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.
Colloquium Committee Sponsor: Dr. Eugene Waluschka
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