来自苏联的威胁所带来的恐惧，渗透了美国人生活的各个层面。“冷战”的氛围造成了战后美国数不尽的违规、医疗过剩以及潜在甚至事实存在的医疗犯罪。美国政府曾一厢情愿地控告纳粹医生所进行的野蛮实验和伪科学研究，不幸的是，美国所做的绝不是什么表率。 《违童之愿》记录了美国历史上黑暗的一面。这是一段令人恐惧、震惊的历史，受20世纪优生学理论的影响，那些掌握着权力的医生、研究者以及研究机构，试图阻止“劣质人群”的生存和繁衍，将儿童当作实验品对待。 今天，我们终于可以听到受害者的声音。这些声音离我们并不遥远……

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?

What's coming Next? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees on the horizon in this short video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidth

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes... Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect. The future is closer than you think.

宇宙波澜：科技与人类前途的自省，ISBN：9787108011183，作者：（美）F.J.戴森（Freeman J.Dyson）著；邱显正译