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Radical Evolution

The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

By Joel Garreau

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| Paperback | 9780767915038

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Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history.  At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution.  Through advances in genetic, robotic, information, and nanotechnolContinue

Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history.  At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution.  Through advances in genetic, robotic, information, and nanotechnologies, we are altering our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progeny–and perhaps our very souls.  Radical Evolution reveals that the powers of our comic-book superheroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the country–from the revved-up reflexes and speed of Spider-Man and Superman, to the enhanced mental acuity and memory capabilities of an advanced species. Over the next fifteen years, Garreau makes clear in this New York Times Book Club premiere selection, these enhancements will become part of our everyday lives. Where will they lead us? To heaven–where technology’s promise to make us smarter, vanquish illness, and extend our lives is the answer to our prayers? Or, as some argue, to hell–where unrestrained technology brings about the ultimate destruction of our species?

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  • Bookreporter.com - RADICAL EVOLUTION by Joel Garreau

    Joel Garreau's provocative new book, RADICAL EVOLUTION, begins with a thought experiment. Sometime in the future, your young daughter returns from her first year at law school. She comes home talking not about torts or civil procedure or the Rule in ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

  • Radical Evolution / by Joel Garreau

    By Joel Garreau. Doubleday. 384 pp, $35, hardcover. If you're a fan of futurist gee-whizzery you might like Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies-And What It Means to Be Human, but don't praise it too loudly, bec ... (read full critics)

    straight published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 400 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0767915038
  • ISBN-13: 9780767915038
  • Publisher: Broadway
  • Pub date: May 09, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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