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Subject: Re: Genetic engineering on NIGHTLINE
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Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 10:01:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 18 10:01:19 1984
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  Just today I received a flyer announcing Jeremy Rifkin's newest book:
'Algeny, A New Word--A New World'.  The announcement states, in part,
'...Jeremy Rifkin warns of the clear dangers inherent in the new science of 
genetic engineering.  For the first time in history humanity is able to
convert living material into new shapes and forms, to redesign life.  As we
inexorably shed the Darwinian concept of nature, which legitimized five
generations of industrial society, a new world view is emerging for the
coming biotechnological society--with cybernetics as the organizing
framework, computers as the organizing mechanism, and living tissue as
the organizing material.'

  I have not seen the book, so I cannot review it.  I noticed that the
reviewers mentioned in the flyer include a US Senator; a psychologist;
a professor of Government; a Bishop; two professors of History; and a
sociologist/anthropologist.

  By the way, it is published by Penguin, $6.95, 298 pp., 0-14-007106-7

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Ted H. Emigh     North Carolina State University     Raleigh  NC
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