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The author plays with fonts and text size as he tosses around famous quotes and ideas that are not well-developed to the point of irritation. I had to pause after reading the 3rd chapter and check the Amazon reviews to remind myself why I bought this book and that it was actually worth reading. It is.
My book copyright says 2001 but some data points referenced are from 2003, 2004 and 2005. I think I received the newer 2006 edition but they failed to update the copyright page.
The author tried to predict the future in 2001 based on the recent success of The Human Genome project. He doesn't do so well but who would? He firmly believes that genomics will fundamentally change the world. I wonder if he is less starry-eyed now? The writing style is a bit like Thomas Friedman's books on globalization: big on hype, pro rapid, disruptive change, pro science but weak on examples and naively assuming change will not be challenged, opposed or encounter unexpected stumbling blocks. And like Friedman, drunk on the history of rapid change in computer chip tech as if that same rapid change will occur equally within all other fields. News flash: even if we know an entire genome, the purpose of each gene and protein and how to express each, we still need to test it before injecting DNA modifications into humans and that portion of the learning curve won't go any faster just because Intel releases a faster chip.
If you have read other books about recent advancements in biology, then you will welcome the brief history lessons and the names of small biotech businesses actively pursuing genomics and proteomics. However, 11 years later, many cited companies are no longer around. There is the obligatory James Watson and Craig Venter worship.Read more ›
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After reading this book, it could be said with fairness that the author has written it for the reader with voracious curiosity, for the reader who is aware of the dizzying rate of technological change sweeping this century, for the reader who is giddy with delight at the sheer quantity of current scientific advances, or for all three. He wants to convey to the reader the excitement he feels about living in these times, and he succeeds in doing so. The book is sparse, with an abundance of room between the sentences and in the margins. The author has purposely made this space available, for the reader's notes, questions, or contemplations. There is a lot to fill in these spaces: the following is just a short sample of this reviewer's fillings: a modest summary of developments that even though valid this week may be obsolete the week after next (or even sooner).
The genetic engineering of mosquitoes: The author describes them as being "flying hypodermic needles" and proposes that they be genetically engineered to deliver antibodies instead of harmful pathogens or even to immunize against malaria. His proposals are supported by current research, in that it has been discovered that certain proteins in mosquitoes determine the efficacy of the reproduction of the parasite `falciparum plasmodium' in the Anopheles mosquito. In order to infect humans, the malaria parasite has to be able to reproduce in the mosquito. There are actually four proteins involved here, called TEP1, LRIM1, CTL4, and CTLMA2. The proteins TEP1 and LRIM1 are part of the immune system of the mosquito, essentially killing the parasite in the mosquito gut. The proteins CTL4 and CTLMA2 however act to protect the parasite as it develops in the mosquito gut.Read more ›
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One of the best books on the matter. Despite it was written several years ago, it maintains the validity and leading edge vision of the world we are living today.
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There is nothing quite so chilling as the prospect of an intellectual looking ahead to the future and describing for we poor benighted masses both how it will look and what we have to do to get there. In my own lifetime alone (a mere forty years) this has included pronouncements that communism was a permanent rival of democracy, perhaps even its superior; that a Silent Spring was coming; that central planning made Japan a more formidable economic power than America with its free market economy; predictions of a new Ice Age in the sixties and, alternatively, of Global Warming in the 90's; dire warnings of a Population Explosion followed by today's obvious underpopulation crisis; and so on and so forth, ad nauseum. In those four short decades, I've lived through the Sexual Revolution, the Third American Reawakening, the New Age, Women's Liberation, Animal Liberation, Black Pride, Gray Pride, Gay Pride, Handicapped Pride, the Nuclear Age, the Space Age, the Green Revolution, the Information Age, the Digital Revolution, the Imperial Presidency, the incredible shrinking presidency, yadda, yadda, yadda... Comes now Juan Enriquez to inform us that we're about to live through the Genomic Age : THE DOMINANT LANGUAGE ... AND ECONOMIC DRIVER...OF THIS CENTURY...IS GOING TO BE GENETICS. Those who remain illiterate in this language... Won't understand the force making the single biggest difference in their lives. And like all of his predecessors, Mr. Enriquez wants to make sure that we completely restructure our lives and our society around the notion that he's right. The quotation above is in roughly the form that Mr.Read more ›
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