@article{12955,
      recid = {12955},
      author = {Fukuyama, Francis,},
      title = {Our posthuman future : consequences of the biotechnology  revolution /},
      pages = {xiii, 256 pages ;},
      note = {Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and  Giroux, ©2002. 1st ed.},
      abstract = {In 1989, [the author] made his now-famous pronouncement  that because "the major alternatives to liberal democracy  had exhausted themselves," history as we knew it had  reached its end. Ten years later, he revised his argument:  we hadn't reached the end of history, he wrote, because we  hadn't yet reached the end of science. Arguing that our  greatest advances still to come will be in the life  sciences, [he] now asks how the ability to modify human  behavior will affect liberal democracy. To re-orient  contemporary debate, [he] underlines man's changing  understanding of human nature through history: from Plato  and Aristotle's belief that man had "natural ends," to the  ideals of utopians and dictators of the modern age who  sought to remake mankind for ideological ends. [He]  persuasively argues that the ultimate prize of the  biotechnology revolution-intervention in the "germ-line,"  the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of one person's  descendents-will have profound, and potentially terrible,  consequences for our political order, even if undertaken by  ordinary parents seeking to "improve" their children. In  [this book, he] begins to describe the potential effects of  exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the  belief that human beings are equal by nature.-Dust jacket.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/12955},
}