Radical Evolution突变
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作者： Joel Garreau 著
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出版时间： 2006-5-1字数：版次： 1页数： 384印刷时间： 2006/05/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780767915038包装： 平装内容简介
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?
作者简介
JOEL GARREAU is a student of culture, values and change. The author of the bestselling Edge City: Life on the New Frontier and The Nine Nations of North America, he is a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, a member of the scenario-planning organization Global Business Network, and has served as a senior fellow at George Mason University and the University of California at Berkeley. He has appeared on such national media as Good Morning America, Today, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, NBC Nightly News, ABC’s World News Tonight, and NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He lives in Broad Run, Virginia.
目录
CHAPTER ONE Prologue: The Future of Human Nature
CHAPTER TWO Be All You Can Be
CHAPTER THREE The Curve
Wbat Are Scenarios?
The Curve Scenario
The Singularity Scenario
CHAPTER FOUR Heaven
The Heaven Scenario
CHAPTER FIVE Hell
The Hell Scenario
CHAPTER SIX Prevail
The Prevail Scenario
CHAPTER SEVEN
Transcend
CHAPTER EIGHT Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Suggested Readings
Notes
Index
