{"id":181125,"date":"2024-01-22T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/summa-technologiae"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:44:36","slug":"summa-technologiae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/summa-technologiae","title":{"rendered":"Summa Technologiae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/summa-technologiae3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/summa-technologiae2.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/>\u201eSumma Technologie is a \u201emother-essay from which most of Lem\u2019s later essayistic books stem. It was written in times when most of the discussed issues \u2013 today sometimes quite obvious ones \u2013 belonged to the world of fantasy. The ambition behind this project still amazes, especially if we take into consideration that Lem tried to set up a secular edifice of knowledge, competing in its universalism with Saint Thomas Aquinas and his Summa Theologica.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time the book rivals world futurology \u2014 in the domain of foreseeing future ways of science and technology. Current generation, interested in biotechnology and informatics, shall find in Lem\u2019s \u201cSumma\u201d the project and prophecy of todays\u2019 successes of these disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>The English translation (University Of Minnesota Press, 2013) is the work of Joanna Zylinska, professor of new media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201eSumma Technologie is a \u201emother-essay from which most of Lem\u2019s later essayistic books stem. It was written in times when most of the discussed issues \u2013 today sometimes quite obvious ones \u2013 belonged to the world of fantasy. The ambition behind this project still amazes, especially if we take into consideration that Lem tried to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}