Damien Broderick collects the opinions and thought of many researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, nanotech, biotech, and several other disciplines to create a masterpiece of compelling speculation on the future of being human...or better.

With a gift of humor, and a knack for simplifying the most complicated of subjects, Damien Broderick has created a masterpiece that the educated researcher, and the layman can both enjoy.

In 1988, Benjamin Franklin Smith suffers a massive coronary and is placed into cryonic suspension, igniting a storm of controversy among his suspicious relatives. In 2072, on his 147th birthday, he is reanimated by his great-grandson, rejoining a world in which such procedures--along with eugenic selection, virtual reality, and nanotechnology--have become commonplace. Ben's friends, children, grandchildren ,and mother are also given second chances in this brave new world; technology has even made it possible for Ben to have his dead wife cloned as an infant, raised by their son (also frozen and revived) to an adulthood in which she marries him again.