In this provocative and farreaching book, jeremy rifkin argues that the computer revolution is merely a prelude to a far more significant change taking place in the global economy. Many thanks to all librivox and other readers and public speakers. Since the midtwentieth century, computer technology and the life sciences have developed side by side at breakneck speed. But what the titans in the computer industrynotably bill. We are in the midst of a fundamental transformation, one of the great changes in history. Text version below transcribed directly from audio good afternoon everyone.
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Jeremy rifkin is an american economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. Jeremy rifkin, jeramiah of the global economy books. And genes are the raw resource of the biotech century, just as metals, minerals. Leans, may 4, 1998 for years, futurists have heralded. Harnessing the gene and remaking the world by jeremy r. The computer is the language, the organizing tool to decipher, download, organize and manipulate genes. The biotech century could bring some or even most of these changes and many more into our daily lives, deeply affecting our individual and collective consciousness, the. One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, jeremy rifkin is the bestselling author of the european dream, the hydrogen economy, the age of access, the biotech century, and the end of work. Rifkin is the author of 21 bestselling books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. He spoke at a day long teachin on biotechnology at the university of.
Jeremy rifkin the biotech century genetic commerce and the dawn of a new era first published in. Then again, he also believes that the 21st century this apparently booming era will witness the. Author jeremy rifkin begins by claiming that humanity is leaving the. The biotech century patenting life a second genesis a eugenic civilization the sociology of the gene computing dna reinventing nature a personal note jeremy rifkin notes that after more than forty years of running on parallel tracks, the information and life sciences are fusing into a single powerful technological and economic force that is laying the foundation for the biotech century. Leans, may 4, 1998 for years, futurists have heralded the information age, championing the computer as the prima donna of global revolution. By the end of the century, they converged into an inconceivably omnipotent force with broad social, economic, and philosophical implications. A fellow at the wharton schools executive education program, he is president of the foundation on economic trends in bethesda, md. We are in the midst of a great historic transition into the age of biotechnology. When man plays god biotechs dark side is being ignored. The computer is merely a prelude to the new economic era, and the new economic era is based on genetic commerce.