IP: more on biotech

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> To: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
> cc: "Jonathan M. Smith" <jms () central cis upenn edu>
>
>
> Dave:
>
>         If people would like to see a real "far-reaching" vision of where
> we can go and what we can do with "biotechnology" and "reengineering man",
> they should read a *wonderful* piece of science
> fiction (written by an Oxford philosophy professor, Olaf Stapledon) called
> "Last and First Men". I read it many years ago and its striking scope and
> vision of human progress continues to inspire my own vision of where we
> can go and what we can attain. Think big!!!!!
>
>                                                                 -JMS

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