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9780805070965: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
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ISBN 10: 0805070966 ISBN 13: 9780805070965
Editorial: Times Books, 1600

Sinopsis

From the bestselling author of The End of Nature comes a passionate plea to limit the technologies that could change the very definition of who we are We are on the verge of crossing the line from born to made, from created to built. Sometime in the next few years, a scientist will reprogram a human egg or sperm cell, spawning a genetic change that could be passed down into eternity. We are sleepwalking toward the future, argues Bill McKibben, and it s time to open our eyes. In The End of Nature , nearly fifteen years ago, McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alter and endanger our environment on a global scale. Now he turns his eye to an array of technologies that could change our relationship not with the rest of nature but with ourselves. He explores the frontiers of genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology all of which we are approaching with astonishing speed and shows that each threatens to take us past a point of no return. We now stand at a critical threshold, poised between the human past and a post-human future. Ultimately, McKibben offers a celebration of what it means to be human, and a warning that we risk the loss of all meaning if we step across the threshold. His wise and eloquent book argues that we cannot forever grow in reach and power that we must at last learn how to say, Enough.

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Acerca del autor

Bill McKibben writes regularly for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Natural History, The New Republic, and many other publications. His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 after being excerpted in The New Yorker and was a national bestseller. His other books include The Age of Missing Information, Maybe One, and Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously. He lives with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and daughter in Vermont.

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Editorial
Times Books
Año de publicación
1600
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ISBN 10 
0805070966
ISBN 13 
9780805070965
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Número de páginas
271
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9780805075199: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age

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ISBN 10:  0805075194 ISBN 13:  9780805075199
Editorial: Griffin, 2004
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