Dimensions
159 x 241 x 20mm
In this "shrewd, helpful and farsighted book" (New Scientist), best-selling author Jeremy Rifkin explores the epic marriage between computer technology and genetic engineering, and the historic transition into the Age of Biotechnology. Already, Rifkin explains, our economy is experiencing a massive shift away from the Industrial Age and into an era in which giant life-science corporations are fashioning a bio-industrial world.Humanity is on the brink of wielding greater control over the biology of life - how we are born; how our food supply is created; the traits our children may have - than has ever been imagined. But with each step into this new era, we must ask ourselves: At what cost?
