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The biotech century

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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  • "Yong ji yin chong su shi jie"
  • "用基因重塑世界"
  • "Jie kai sheng wu ke ji di mian sha"
  • "Biotech century"
  • "Biotech century"@it
  • "揭開生物科技的面紗"
  • "Biotech Century"

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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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Explores current developments in the fields of biochips, cloning, and genetic mapping."
  • "1. Biotechnology-Social aspects 2. Biotechnology-Moral and ethecal aspect."@en
  • "S'appuyant sur un minutieux travail de recherche et de documentation, l'auteur a réalisé la première synthèse critique d'une révolution qui pourrait bouleverser notre mode de vie. En huit chapitres (Le siècle des biotechnologies - Breveter la vie - Une nouvelle genèse - La civilisation eugénique - Sociologie du gène - L'ADN sur ordinateur - La nature réinventée - Réflexions personnelles), il décrit "les découvertes et les innovations les plus avancées, leurs perspectives de développement économique et commercial, leurs répercussions éthiques et politiques.""

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  • "生物技术世纪"
  • "The biotech century : harnessing the gene and remaking the World"
  • "The biotech century"@en
  • "The biotech century"
  • "第二個創世紀"
  • "The biotech century harnessing the gene and remaking the world"@en
  • "The biotech century harnessing the gene and remaking the world"
  • "The Biotech century : harnessing the gene and remaking the world"
  • "El Siglo de la biotecnología : el comercio genético y el nacimiento de un mundo feliz"
  • "The biotech century : harnessing the gene and remaking the world"@en
  • "The biotech century : harnessing the gene and remaking the world"
  • "Biotekniikan aika : geenin valjastaminen ja uuden maailman luominen"@fi
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  • "El siglo de la biotecnología : el comercio genético y el nacimiento de un mundo feliz / Jeremy Rifkin ; traducción castellana de Juan Pedro Campos"
  • "Di er ge chuang shi ji"
  • "Qarn al-taqnīyah al-ḥayawīyah : taskhīr al-jīnāt wa-iʻādat tashkīl al-ʻālam"
  • "El siglo de la biotecnología : el comercio genético y el nacimiento de un mundo feliz"
  • "Stoletje biotehnologije : kako bo trgovina z geni spremenila svet"@sl
  • "El siglo de la biotecnología : el comercio genético y el nacimiento de un mundo feliz"@es
  • "Sheng wu ji shu shi ji"
  • "The biotech century : how genetic commerce will change the world"
  • "The biotech century : how genetic commerce will change the world"@en
  • "生物技朮世纪 : 用基因重塑世界"
  • "Biotehnološko stoljeće : trgovina genima u osvit vrlog novog svijeta"
  • "قرن التقنية الحيوية تسخير الجينات واعادة تشكيل العالم"
  • "Il secolo biotech : il commercio genetico e l'inizio di una nuova era"@it
  • "Il secolo biotech : il commercio genetico e l'inizio di una nuova era"
  • "قرن التقنية الحيوية : تسخير الجينات واعادة تشكيل العالم"
  • "Das biotechnische Zeitalter : die Geschäfte mit der Gentechnik"
  • "The Biotech Century: Harnessing the gene and remaking the world"@en
  • "O aiōnas tēs viotechnologias : genetiko emporio kai ē augē tou thaumastou kainouriou kosmou"
  • "Le Siècle biotech : le commerce des gènes dans le meilleur des mondes"
  • "Le siècle biotech : le commerce des gènes dans le meilleur des mondes"
  • "قرن التقنية الحيوية : تسخير الجينات وإعادة تشكيل العالم"
  • "Sheng wu ji shu shi ji : yong ji yin chong su shi jie"
  • "Biyoteknoloji yüzyılı : genlerden yararlanma ve dünyayı yeniden kurma"@tr
  • "Das biotechnische Zeitalter : die Geschäfte mit der Genetik"

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