  a NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript Online NewsHour  June
16, 1999  David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World
Report, engages Freeman Dyson, professor of physics at Princeton
University, on his new book, The Sun, the Genome, and the
Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution.   JIM LEHRER: A Gergen
dialogue. David Gergen talks with Freeman Dyson, Professor of
Physics at Princeton University, author of The Sun, The Genome,
and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions.  DAVID
GERGEN: Dr. Dyson, at the heart of your new book is this
statement: "The new century will be a good time for new
beginnings. Technology guided by ethics has the power to help
billions of poor people all over the earth." Tell us more about
that.  FREEMAN DYSON, Author, The Sun, The Genome & The
Internet: Yes. Well, that's, of course, a hope rather than a
prediction. We don't know that it's going to happen, but at
least there's a chance it could, and if we push hard enough, we
can make it happen. Technology by itself, of co