The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
by Jeremy Rifkin
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Jeremy Rifkin notes that after more than forty years of running on parallel tracks, the information and life sciences are fusing into a single powerful technological and economic force that is laying the foundation for the Biotech Century. Our way of life, says Rifkin, is likely to be transformed more fundamentally in the next few decades than in the previous thousand years. Food and fiber may be grown indoors in giant bacteria baths, partially eliminating the farmer and the soil for the show more first time in history. Animal and human cloning could be commonplace, with "replication" increasingly replacing "reproduction." Millions of people could obtain a detailed genetic readout of themselves, allowing them to gaze into their own biological futures and predict and plan their lives in ways never before possible. Parents may choose to have their children gestated in artificial wombs outside the human body. Genetic changes could be made in human fetuses to correct deadly diseases and disorders and enhance mood, behavior, intelligence, and physical traits. The new genetic commerce raises more troubling questions than any other economic revolution in history. Rifkin explores these and many other critical issues in this book about the coming era. show lessTags
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Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of 19 bestselling books that have been translated into, more than 35 languages. Rifkin serves as an adviser to the European Union and to heads of state around the world. He is chairman of the Third Industrial Revolution Global CEO Business Roundtable, which includes show more many of the world's leading Fortune 500 companies. Rifkin is also a senior lecturer at the Wharton Schools Executive Education Program at the University or Pennsylvania. show less
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- The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
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- The Biotech Century: The Coming Age of Genetic Commerce
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- Science & Nature, Nonfiction, Sociology, General Nonfiction, Technology
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- 303.483 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Social change Causes of change Development of science and technology
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- TP248.2 .R54 — Technology Chemical technology Chemical technology Chemicals: Manufacture, use, etc.
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