@Mysticeve I liked philosophy back in college because you could argue anything -- including both sides of the same question -- and there was really no "right" answer to anything. It was meaningless but lots of mental fun, as far as I was concerned.
It's ironic that both points of view were correct.
Speaking of ironic, I found the author a very old book that I once was searching for decades. Now I can't afford to buy the book! 🤣
The method is dictated within the means. Money does both. It disables as well as the cause of disinterest.
Book name is "In Vivo" by Mildred Savage 1964!
Dystopian society as well through DNA manipulation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Vivo_(novel)
Synopsis.
In 1946, young, idealistic scientist Tom Cable steers the fiscally conservative Enright Drug and Chemical Company into dangerous financial waters by committing an increasing number of company resources to the research and development of a new broad-spectrum antibiotic.
Supporting Cable in his search for a new broad-spectrum antibiotic are Ade Hale (president), Will Caroline (vice-president for research), Maxwell Strong, and Dr. Mills. Opposing them are Claude Morrissey (director of biochemistry) and Gil Brainard (vice-president for production). The story line is linear with traditional character arcs. The heroes and villains are archetypal with the heroes often possessing trope-like names (e.g. Max Strong, Constance, Hope, etc.) and generally embodying all that is good while the villains back-stab, bicker and descend into abject immorality.
@DeWayfarer I usually hate it when people butt in with replies on a thread they're not really part of, but on the chance it might be useful, some info - https://www.worldcat.org/ finds public libraries with titles you want, for me it found this title in 3 libraries, all about 20 miles away - but free and possibly something that could be handled with an interlibrary sharing program that seem to be pretty popular all over. amazon has it, only in hardback for ~$8, so not wildly expensive and a softcover version as well. thrift books has it used for $4-$5. it doesn't seem that anyone's made it into an ebook yet. alas.
While I know of that system, it's not something I could use in this particular case, because I didn't remember the title exactly in addition to not knowing the author.
Unfortunately that particular system doesn't use artificial intelligence (AI), which Google currently does in it's search results, with a huge caveat.
Google's AI likes to give what is popular at the time of the search. That is why Google will not always give the same results, even given different times of day.
In my case, I assumed the title was InVivo instead of "In Vivo". Just one word. No normal search site can possibly get around such a mistake in spelling. They usually need precise title names. Even then, they want author names, which I had no idea what so ever who the author was.
Yet as I mentioned, Google NOW is using AI on its search engine. That, with my own knowledge on how Google's AI works, allowed me to finally find this book.
Even three years ago this wouldn't have worked. Google's AI was still learning. 😆
Hopefully, sometime in the future, such sites as you have given will be incorporating certain aspects of AI, like "Natural Language Processing" (NPL), and not be so dependent on "popularity" of the subject.
Here is a tip on getting around Google's "popularity" problem.
Conduct your search at times where few people are online. Around 2am in the morning on a week day is perfect, because everyone is asleep! 😆
I remember someone blocked me immediately after angry reacting to my post. And another time I got blocked because I didn't answer a message right away. What confused me is both times I never said anything to them lol
What the Soviet Union and Mao's China never understood was if everyone could say whatever they wanted there were so many voices speaking at once not much of it got heard.
