A reader sent me this funny and touching snapshot from a children’s book about cloning. I wonder if the complete book really exists?
Update: The book doesn’t exist; it was part of a Wired piece about children’s books of the future.
Apr 22 2010
Bryan writes, I'm too young to remember much about the politics and economics of the Seventies. From books, though, I get the impression that American political economy was in complete disarray The first thing that I would say is that the economy was never the central issue that it is today. Until 1973, the war in ...
Apr 22 2010
I'm too young to remember much about the politics and economics of the Seventies. From books, though, I get the impression that American political economy was in complete disarray: high inflation, high unemployment, crazy price controls, regulatory explosion, crushing taxes, loss of central bank credibility, vagu...
Apr 22 2010
A reader sent me this funny and touching snapshot from a children's book about cloning. I wonder if the complete book really exists?Update: The book doesn't exist; it was part of a Wired piece about children's books of the future.
READER COMMENTS
Fenn
Apr 22 2010 at 11:40am
looks photoshopped, so I’m guessing no
MicroNomics
Apr 22 2010 at 11:56pm
Speaking of fun, I remember an interview from the 70’s (?) with Isaac Asimov in which he sang “Clone of My Own.” From what I remember, it went something like this:
(Sung to the tune of Home on the Range)
Oh give me a clone
Of my own very own
With a Y chromosome changed to X
And when my own clone
Has all done and grown
She will be of the opposite sex
Chorus
Clone clone of my own….
I have searched for a clip unsuccessfully.
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