@booklet {8575, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Prologue: A Glimpse of Things to Come{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}Epilogue: Human Destiny?{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {In his Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World }, year = {1997}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2001.

}, month = {1997}, pages = {1-7, 240-50, 306}, publisher = {Avon Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An imaginative projection into the future of genetic engineering, with, in the \“Prologue,\” stops in 2010, 2050, and 2350, and, in the \“Epilogue,\” in 2350, 2997, and the far future designated as ???? Projects a deep division between the \“Naturals\” and the \“GenRich\” or genetically enriched with, ultimately, divisions within the human species and the development of what later came to be called the Posthuman. Due to the division into Natural and Gen-Rich, by 2350 ethnic and racial differences are no longer important. Within the Gen-Rich, significant subtypes have emerged, with fundamental differences among, for example, athletes, scientists, businessmen, musicians, artists. \“and even GenRich intellectual generalists\” (5). Natural children are only taught basic skills to fit them for low-paid service jobs. Natural and GenRich come to live segregated lives and are biologically separate species. Later GenRich reshape themselves to fit the environments on different planets and finally evolve into what is now called Posthumans.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Lee M. Silver (b. 1952)} }