Fiddling with nature.(Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution By Francis Fukuyama)

The American Prospect | June 3, 2002| | Copyright

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 256 pages, $25.00

AS MANY ASTUTE OBSERVERS have pointed out, controversial new ideas are assimilated in three stages. First they re false and pernicious, then they're true but trivial, and finally they're what everyone claims to have believed all along. I see nothing to disprove this time-tested formula in the case of Francis Fukuyama's thesis about the "end of history." According to Fukuyama, the evolution of social structure has come to a natural ...

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