| Sumario: | The article discusses revolutionary scientific advances in biotechnology which are redefining the meaning of life, liberty and equality as the world metamorphoses from century of physics and chemistry into biotech century. Disingenuity of the possessors of biotech weapons is starkest when it comes to stealing and patenting life and ecosystems from the third world. The biotech century is vitiating the planet with "genetic pollution", "destroying habitats, destabilizing ecosystems and diminishing the remaining reservoirs of biological diversity. The dependence of the biotech century on computer programming and storage has lessons for international relations too. In an era signified by growing information inequalities between rich and poor and developed and undeveloped parts of the world, "survival of the best informed" is crystallizing. The biggest question on the cusp of the biotech century is not whether an individual is opposed to science and technology, but rather to what kind of science and technology, those that abet injustice or those that benefit mankind and the ecosystem in every corner of the globe. INSET: From "S.F. Businessman Evolves From Clothier to Eco. . ..
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