Technogenesis Redesigns Phylogenesis: Or, When Liberation Biology Meets Our Posthuman Future

摘要

AT THE DAWN OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM, While mOSt of the world was abuzz about the Y2K bug potentially tripping the software codes of the emerging global information network, a group of biological and computer scientists, powered by the latest supercomputers, were decoding the hardware of human life. In a history-making event, when President Clinton on June 26, 2000, announced the completion of the first survey of the book of life, he pointed to the vast scientific landscape that has been opened by these discoveries.