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A Scottish sheep is all very well, but with the recent announcement that a cute kitten had been cloned by the cutely named Genetic Savings & Clone company, biotechnology acquired its first credible mascot. It's the sort of media event that probably appalls Francis Fukuyama, though in OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE: CONSEQUENCES OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION (forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux) it isn't cats he's worried about but us. Fukuyama carefully deflates the most extreme claims of both advocates and scaremongers while passionately insisting that governments need to develop coherent regulation policies for new biotechnologies. The freewheeling way in which neuropharmaceuticals like Ritalin have been prescribed during the last decade, for example, does not make him optimistic. And the stakes are getting higher: "The Law of Unintended Consequences would apply here in spades."
Peter J. Bentley's DIGITAL BIOLOGY (Simon & ...