Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: An Introduction: Protein Machines with Flaws -- Two Contests/Two Chickens -- The Science of Speculation: Two Futures -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: A Chicken, Part I -- Configuring "Tomorrow" (The Factory) -- Creating a Protein Machine… -- (Component: An Animal Body) -- (Component: An Environment) -- (Component: An Economy) -- (Component: A Set of Human Relationships) -- (Component: A Question of Visibility, or the Machine in Context) -- …with Flaws -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: An Interval: A Chicken, Ramona -- Chapter 4: A Chicken, Part II -- Configuring Tomorrow (The Laboratory) -- Creating a Protein Machine… -- (Component: A ("Chicken") Body) -- (Component: An Environment) -- (Component: An Economy) -- (Component: A Set of Human Relationships) -- (Component: A Question of Visibility, Or the Machine in Context) -- …with Flaws? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: A Future, Part I -- A Century of Science Fact and Fiction -- An Age of Expansion -- An Age of Design -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Another Interval: A Fox, Two Chickens -- Chapter 7: A Future, Part II -- Thinking Through Technology -- The Future as a Collective Project -- Technological Change -- Technologies and/as Responsibilities -- The Future as a Laboratory -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: A Conclusion: Protein Machines, the Human Kind -- We Have Changed -- We Will Change -- We Can Change -- Bibliography -- Index. |