About This Book

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About the author. Stephen L. Talbott is a senior researcher at The Nature Institute in Ghent, New York, having joined the Institute’s staff in 1998. Before he became affiliated with the Institute, and after a decade working in the software engineering organizations of computer manufacturers, he was a senior editor at the technical book publisher, O’Reilly and Associates (now O’Reilly Media). He is the author of The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst (1995) and Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines (2007), and co-author (with Craig Holdrege) of Beyond Biotechnology (2008).

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