Response to lit
Brittany Curtis
I read the book, As the future Catches You By Juan Enriquez. This book is about how
genetics, genome, and technology are changing our lives. I think the theme in this book is that
you should pay attention to technology and learn all you can or you will never understand the
global economy. This book talks about how technology is changing over the centuries, and how it
is still changing. Stem cell and genetic engineering research has gotten extremely advanced. And
hopefully it will be able to be used as cure to diseases, cancer and other life threatening illnesses.
It also tells about how they can process your DNA to find out what diseases you are susceptible
to and cure them before you even get them.
Technology is a big part of our lives, and it only getting more advanced and more
complicated. If you want to be in touch with the global economy, then you need to understand
what’s driving it. Computer companies are making so much money by developing and selling
their ideas. So it would be a good idea if you were technology literate. According to the Bureau of
Labor statistics, each of the 5 fasting-growing job categories in the US from 1998-2008 is
expected to be computer related. In Silicon Valley the computer companies are constantly going
under, then coming right back on top again with billions of dollars worth of new technology. So if
you want to be successful you need to have a company that struggle, and then succeeds.
I can see that computers are becoming smarter than people when 1990 one of the worlds
best chest players, Gary Kasparov faced off against Deep Thought, an IBM computer, and beat it
mercilessly. But in 1996 they had a rematch, and Gary Kasparov lost. That shows me the book
is true, and I am glad I read it. I want to understand how the global economy works, and this
book shoed me how. The countries that have high tech industry are the most successful, and out
country is very high tech, and also very successful.
This book connects with history in many ways. On connection is the way genomics have
changed since the past, and if we had this technology, history would probably be a little
different. The book says that today technology exists that can analyze your DNA, to see if you
genes are ones of a healthy person that can help in today’s society, or is going to die of some sort
of hereditary disease. That means that if you apply to a job, you can not be hired base on you
genetics. In World War Two before there was that technology the Nazis put Jew in
Concentration camps, because they thought there race, and genetics were inferior, but in reality
they are the same as everybody else. That shows the advancement in technology, and how it
would have been useful in the past, but it did not exist.
The author achieved his purpose, because I have changed the way I thought about the
future. At first I didn’t care at all what the future had in store, but now I glad I know, because I
think everything will be ok. When people start having there DNA modified to make them less
susceptible to diseases humans will have a longer life expectancy. Now countries that are less
technology advance should work on getting some sort of computer industry, because that is
where the future is heading.
