Take a photo of a barcode or cover
okajiba 's review for:
The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Mukherjee is quickly becoming one of my all time favorite writers of science and medicine. "The Gene" is a riveting and powerful follow-up to "The Emperor of All Maladies." It follows the history of the discovery and the evolution of ideas surrounding one the primary vehicles of evolution.
In this writing, Mukherjee forces us to grapple with the past, present, and the "futures of futures," of what science, technology, and the quest for advancement will ultimately mean for humanity. This book can be uniquely unsettling in its thought experiments, so if you're not one for pondering grand ideas about futurism, trans-humanism, and all such talk, then this book is most assuredly not for you.
In this writing, Mukherjee forces us to grapple with the past, present, and the "futures of futures," of what science, technology, and the quest for advancement will ultimately mean for humanity. This book can be uniquely unsettling in its thought experiments, so if you're not one for pondering grand ideas about futurism, trans-humanism, and all such talk, then this book is most assuredly not for you.