Enough (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Bill McKibben
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Environment, ethics, science, sociology, and technology
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Science and technology
- Subjects: Children, Twentieth century, Immortality, Future, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Class consciousness, Human race, Death or dying, Ethics, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Genetics, Artificial intelligence
Bill McKibben has devoted himself to extensive research on the subjects of this book; the quotations that he liberally uses threaten to overwhelm his prose in many paragraphs. This is not a book merely cobbled together from the words and ideas of others, however. The author has taken the time to think through questions of technology and about the meaning of human lives. In doing so, he has created a moving book that sets out to examine, in detailed and straightforward prose, what the convergence of certain technologies could mean for the future. By this, he means the future of every...
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