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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, I have read it. He his views in that field were well-known. He was (Heaven help us) a member of a panel which advised Mr. Bush in that area, despite having no professional expertise in the field of climatology.
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Despite my admiration for the man, there's a reason a science fiction writer should not be on a presidential science panel. Bush would've been better served by Bill Nye. In fact, MC must have served to scare the bejeezus out of Bush, to make him so technophobic during his administration.
"We cain't have cloning... it'll only lead to Dineo-saurs that swim to San Diego and eat people's dogs..."
I understand where he was coming from in
State of Fear, though (Note: this is based on my impression from reviews, not from actual reading of the book)... the idea of accepting any data, just because the majority accepts it, doesn't always work. (Ask Galileo.) In fact, much of his work danced around the idea/danger of one person/group using another person/group's technology, without fully investigating the possible flaws or missing information therein.
His ideas on technology were, I think, summed up very well in his movie
Runaway, in which the main character, Ramsey, tells his partner: "Let me tell you how it is. People make robots. People aren't perfect. So why should we expect robots to be perfect?"