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As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth| Media: | Hardcover | | Author: | Juan Enriquez | | Publisher: | Crown Business | | Release date: | 16 October, 2001 | | List price: | $23.95 |
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Excellent Book!!! |
| This book affects everyone and is one of the best science/management/future books I have ever read! |
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Thought Provoking, More Economics than Genomics |
The PowerPoint text-heavy style makes for a book than can be picked up and read in a series of bursts. The genomics component was relatively new to me, but with a little research I was able to observe differences between what the author forecast in 2001 and today. Enriquez' observations and point of view on economics and education are more telling four years later, however. They provide a solid frame of reference in which to understand why the genomics "revolution" has been slowed. More importantly, the economic and education discussion offers an explanation of the widening gap between haves and have nots that helps explain current events. Simply put, societies that apply technology and value science provide the basis for immense wealth creation to take place. Societies that, in the author's words, expect the umbrella of a glorious past to protect them from forces of change driven by advancing technology are doomed to fall behind.
Immediately after this book I picked up "Dream Palace of the Arabs" and realized that many backward-looking middle eastern societies professing "love of the land" and desires to restore "homelands" are completely missing any opportunities for catching up with western culture [or at least its potential for economic productivity] and are doomed to falling further behind. Societies where poets are glorified and contributions of engineers are denigrated can't be helped by any amount of economic assistance and even those that export natural resources today will be in trouble when those source of income start to fall off. Reading As the Future Catches You with an eye toward today's headlines of unrest and resentment of the US in the middle east and misguided protests over globalization and offshoring of jobs provides deeper insight than offered by the popular [but shallow] media. |
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