Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming
extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same
species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is
that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should
that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug
addiction--is it worse than the disease?
What's coming Next? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees
on the horizon in this short video clip: high bandwidth or
low bandwidth
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when
it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for
thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic
maladies.
We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned
by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family
can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have
certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a
breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it
seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.
Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of
morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the
genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our
assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least
expect.
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