In my second lecture on Francis Bacon’s utopian fable New Atlantis I read from the promises of Salomon’s House at apparent total control of nature. Genetic modification of animals and plants, corruption of the seasons, airplanes, holograms, satellites are but a few ideas put forth by Bacon (of course, all named differently then).
Toward the end I sugges…
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