The Coming Convergence.
The Bookwatch • July, 2008 • The Coming Convergence: The Surprising Ways Diverse
Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the
Future
The Coming Convergence
Stanley Schmidt, Ph.D.
Prometheus Books
59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228-2197
9781591026136, $27.95 www.prometheusbooks.com
THE COMING CONVERGENCE: THE SURPRISING WAYS DIVERSE TECHNOLOGIES
INTERACT TO SHAPE OUR WORLD AND CHANGE THE FUTURE comes from a physicist
and writer who shows how past convergences between technologies have
changed the world--and how new currents in biotechnology and information
technology hold the same promise for the future. From the potentials for
reduced pollution and longer lives to the issues of too much power in
too few hands, THE COMING CONVERGENCE charts dangerous--and
hopeful--future paths of development.
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