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  • Brave New World V2.0

    04/22/2002 10:31:59 AM PDT · by gordgekko · 25 replies · 441+ views
    Enter Stage Right ^ | April 22, 2002 | Steven Martinovich
    Our Posthuman Future Consequences of the biotechnology revolution By Francis Fukuyama Farrar, Straus and Giroux 256 pgs. US$25/C$39.95 ISBN: 0-374-23643-7 Brave New World V2.0By Steven Martinovichweb posted April 22, 2002It would appear that history has not, in fact, ground to a halt. Back in 1989, social philosopher Francis Fukuyama made the extraordinary claim that because "the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves," history had effectively come to an end. Ten years later, he backpedaled by announcing that history wasn't at an end because science continued to make progress. Fukuyama picks up that thread in Our Posthuman Future: Consequences...