Had enough?Thought much about nanotechnology lately? Most people imagine the world ending with a mushroom cloud, not because of a bunch of microscopic robots. But Bill McKibben's alarming Enough (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Books/Henry Holt, $25) raises the specter of tiny lab-hatched nanobots destroying civilization with a force that makes even the nuclear and chemical weapons of the 20th century seem tame by comparison." Enough is about letting genies out of the bottle, and nanotechnology is just one of them. Want a designer baby? Michael West Michael West may refer to:
DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. "the way you can a document on a word processor." Other scientists are exulting about merging the human race with machines, creating a form of immortality immortality, attribute of deathlessness ascribed to the soul in many religions and philosophies. Forthright belief in immortality of the body is rare. Immortality of the soul is a cardinal tenet of Islam and is held generally in Judaism, although it is not an . "We stand on the edge of disappearing even as individuals;" McKibben warns. Enough is an important and deeply human book. McKibben is the voice of reason, a welcome antidote antidote Remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin. Administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, to the futurists who command our attention with compelling fantasies. |
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