The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780874779530)

In this seminal book, 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 undergoing a massive shift away from the Industrial Age and into an era in which giant life-science corporations are fashioning a bioindustrial world.Humanity is on the brink of wielding greater control over the shape 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?

Author: Jeremy Rifkin
ISBN-10: 0874779537
ISBN-13: 9780874779530
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/05/1999
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.01w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/1999