

The result is that four interrelated technologies-genetic, robotic, informational and nano processes-hold the potential to modify human nature itself.

Information power has been doubling every 18 months or so, at an exponential rate of change, and computer breakthroughs are also producing innovations in biology.

An eye-opening exploration of how cutting-edge 21st-century technologies, in embryonic form right now, pose the stark alternatives of a real-life Utopia or Brave New World.
