Arguing that the acceleration of technological innovation is setting the course for the next stage of human evolution, the author of Edge City raises thought-provoking questions about human culture, society, and the very nature of humankind. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Radical evolution
See also the excellent review by our colleague David Jablonski: D. Jablonski, “Extinctions in the Fossil Record (and Discussion),” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 344, 1307 (1994): 11–17. 6.
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I worked on the Philco Goodyear show. Everybody used to watch it. We had a brilliant producer – Fred Coe. I hate to say this, but he could not get a job on a network today – his kind of high standards and sophisticated outlook on 165.