Neem underscores need for U.S. biodiversity role

摘要

There is very little these days that mote sharply divides otherwise progressive-minded people, whatever their political per suasion, than the debate over the propel use of advanced technologies. This is especially true of the boom in advanced computertechnology, which has spawned such works as Kirkpatrick Sale's Rebels Against the Future (Addison/Wesley, 1995), a meticulous study of the Luddite uprising in early 19th century Midlands England Indeed, Sale tried to kick off a revival of late 20th-century neo-Luddism by gleefully smashingacomputer with a sledgehammer during a symposium of "visionaries" in New York City lasl fall Sale's counterpart in the arena of biotechnology, of course, is Jeremy Rifkin.