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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 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.
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Moral and ethical aspects, Social aspects, Genetic engineering, Biotechnology, Social aspects of Genetic engineering, Social aspects of Biotechnology, Moral and ethical aspects of Biotechnology, Moral and ethical aspects of Genetic engineering, Morals, Biotechnologie, Sociale aspecten, Ethics, Technische ontwikkeling, Culturele aspecten, Risk assessment, Environmental aspects, Economische aspecten, New York Times reviewed, Geobiology, Genetic engineering, moral and ethical aspects, Social sciences, SociologyShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Das biotechnische Zeitalter: Die Geschäfte mit der Gentechnik
2000, Goldmann
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in German
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3442150906 9783442150908
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The Biotech Century
September 2, 1999, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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075380848X 9780753808481
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The Biotech Century
April 5, 1999, Tarcher
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The biotech century: harnessing the gene and remaking the world
1999, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
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The biotech century: harnessing the gene and remaking the world
1998, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The biotech century: harnessing the gene and remaking the world
1998, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
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