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First Monday Book Reviews
by Jeremy at 10:09 pm EST, Apr 2, 2002

Pierre Baldi.
The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
... stands out, partly thanks to its somehow provocative and disquieting contents ...
"Music can be represented, composed, and recorded in digital media in many ways ... edited and manipulated ... just like genomic DNA. ... Within a few hundred years, traditional instrumentalists could vanish almost entirely, and something derived from the computers of today could become a kind of universal instrument connected to the Internet."
Ollivier Dyens.
Metal and Flesh - The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.

.... a collection of writings on the emergence of "cultural biology." ... three sections ... revolving around two central themes: how technology transforms our perception of the world and how culture is taking a life of its own.

Two interesting book reviews from the latest issue of _First Monday_.