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The biotech century : harnessing the gene and remaking the world
Titre:
The biotech century : harnessing the gene and remaking the world
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Sommaire:
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. A technology that can find genetic sources of disease, for example, can also lead to widespread acceptance of eugenic practices; techniques for genetically altering crops and animals to improve food sources could just as easily be used to create customized biological weapons. Just as the Industrial Revolution caused unexpected problems such as depletion of natural resources, overpopulation, economic injustice and pollution, so the Biotech Revolution will inevitably cause problems we cannot yet imagine, Rifkin contends, especially if we fail to educate ourselves about the nature of biotechnology and neglect to make careful decisions about how it should best be used.
Date de publication comme intervalle:
1998-1999
Description matérielle:
xvi, 271 p. ; 23 cm.
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780874779530
Informations de publication:
New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999, c1998.