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As the Future Catches You : How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health and Wealth by Juan Enriquez (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-100609609033

ISBN-139780609609033

eBay Product ID (ePID)1868253

Product Key Features

Book TitleAs the Future Catches You : How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health and Wealth

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCivilization, Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics

Publication Year2001

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Science, History

AuthorJuan Enriquez

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight18.1 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-028239

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"With amazing insight and with a graphical, almost poetical style of writing, Enriquez describes how computers, genomics, and other new technologies are shaping our present and future." -- Hamilton O. Smith, Nobel laureate in medicine "By far the best book I know to help us understand and cope with the powerful technologies that are about to change every aspect of our lives." -- Roger Fisher, coauthor of Getting to Yes

Dewey Decimal303.48/3

Table Of ContentI -- Mixing Apples, Oranges, and Floppy Disks . . . We are beginning to acquire direct and deliberate control over the evolution of all life forms . . . on the planet. II -- The 390:1 Gap The disparity in wealth between the richest and poorest nations used to be around 5:1. It is now 390:1 and increasing. III -- The New Rich . . . and the New Poor Why wealth is now based on knowledge...and how one person can generate more wealth than that produced by all people living in Israel, Malaysia, or Chile over the course of a year. IV -- Empires of the Mind The Singapore Law . . . Why the future belongs to small, clustered populations who build empires of the mind and ignore the temptationor do not have the option ofexploiting natural resources. V -- Data Drives Empires The world's dominant language is no longer English, nor does it have a twenty-six letter alphabet . . . The way a country, region, or group becomes dominant is by transmitting knowledge faster and more widely . . . This is now done with two letters. VI -- Genetics . . . the Next Dominant Language Societies that don't understand genetic discoveries or the challenges and opportunities that arise from these discoveries are functionally illiterate in the language that codes all life on the planet. VII -- Genetics Is . . . a Hockey Stick A revolution that may be 50 percent faster than the computer revolution. VIII -- The Most Powerful Information System Biocomputing could make genomes the world's most powerful and compact coding and information systems. IX -- Nano World Big changes . . . on a small scale . . . Biorobots the size of a virus. X -- Revolution . . . in a Few ZIP Codes The knowledge revolution is taking place in small, sharply defined areas. One company generates more U.S. patents than 139 countries do together . . . This generates new EMPIRES and new ghettos. XI -- Technology Is Not Kind . . . It Does Not Say "Please" It slams into existing systems and destroys them while creating new systems. Countries and individuals can either surf new and powerful waves changeor try to stop them and get crushed. XII -- Sleepless...(and Angry) in Seattle Many people, even some of the heads of megacorporations, feel that the world is moving too fast as companies, even industries, disappear. XIII -- High Tech . . . High Pay . . . High Mobility . . . Wealth is concentrated and portable. MIT faculty and alumni produce as much wealth as all but twenty-two countries in the world. The United States keeps its leadership not by educating its own but by importing more and more brains. XIV -- The Digital-Genomics Diaspora Three-quarters of the world's countries did not exist fifty years ago. We are likely to soon breed a further hundred states. Flags, borders, and anthems survive only where citizens are treated like shareholders . . . Otherwise they leave, and take much of the country's economic future with them. XV -- Time Warp We are in a time warp. Technology accelerates trends, be they positive or negative. We are just beginning to glimpse how profoundly different our children's lives will be in a post-genomics world. Postscript Notes Credits Index

SynopsisYou will never look at the world in the same way after readingAs the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with a series of unprecedented political, ethical, economic, and financial issues, dramatically demonstrating the cascading impact of the genetic, digital, and knowledge revolutions on your life. Genetics will be the dominant language of this century. Those who can "speak it" will acquire direct and deliberate control over all forms of life. But most countries and individuals remain illiterate in what is rapidly becoming the greatest single driver of the global economy. Wealth will be more concentrated and those with knowledge to sellboth countries and individualswill be the winners. Consider what will happen when: Your genetic code can be digitally imprinted on an ID card and your insurance company and employer see that you are genetically disposed to, say, heart disease. Pharmaceutical products are developed so that you can eat genetically modified broccoli to protect yourself from cancer. Cloning will be as common as in vitro fertilization and scientists can influence the genetic design not only of other species but of your own children. Creating wealth no longer requires many hands. Lone individuals are giving birth to entire new industries that rapidly become bigger than the economies of most countries on earth, but create very few jobs. As the Future Catches Youresembles no other book. A typical page may contain just a few dozen words. But each seemingly discrete fact is like a chip in an intellectual mosaic that reveals its meaning and beauty only as you step back and see the big picture. Juan Enriquez is like the best teacher you ever had, one who helps you to see something in a new light and makes you say, "Now I get it!" Juan Enriquez's main point is that technology is not kind, it does not say "please," but slams into existing systems and destroys them while creating new ones. Countries and individuals can either surf new and powerful waves of changeor get crushed trying to stop them. The future is catching us all. Let it catch you with your eyes wide open.

LC Classification NumberHM846.E57 2001