The biotech century : harnessing the gene and remaking the world

This publication explores the epic marriage between computer technology and genetic engineering, and the historic transition into the Age of Biotechnology. Already, 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 is created; the traites our children may have -- than has ever been imagined. But with each step into this new era, we must ask ourselves: at what cost?