David Grant, Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Law School and formerly Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney and Lyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, Australia

'This is a challenging and sophisticated book, with an original thesis. It is intriguing at many levels: part assessment of the new worlds of modern technologies, part a work of deeply engaged intellectual history, part itself a philosophy of history, part a treatise on the proper relations between law, regulation and technology. Underlying all this is a philosophically deeply grounded plea that we not succumb to ''mythologising'' the new technologies, as we have over ages succumbed to the (successive) mythologies of Deity, State and Market, but take responsibility for our lives. It is a timely, powerful and arresting work.'--Martin Krygier, UNSW Sydney, Australia

• Contents: Introduction 2. The Mythological Trajectory 3. Science and Mythology 4. Attitudes towards Emerging Technologies 5. Gene Technology and the Mythology of the Legislative Process 6. Law and the Trajectory of Myth 7. Conclusion: Technology need not be Mythological Bibliography Index

David Grant, Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Law School and formerly Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney and Lyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, Australia

'This is a challenging and sophisticated book, with an original thesis. It is intriguing at many levels: part assessment of the new worlds of modern technologies, part a work of deeply engaged intellectual history, part itself a philosophy of history, part a treatise on the proper relations between law, regulation and technology. Underlying all this is a philosophically deeply grounded plea that we not succumb to ''mythologising'' the new technologies, as we have over ages succumbed to the (successive) mythologies of Deity, State and Market, but take responsibility for our lives. It is a timely, powerful and arresting work.'--Martin Krygier, UNSW Sydney, Australia

• Contents: Introduction 2. The Mythological Trajectory 3. Science and Mythology 4. Attitudes towards Emerging Technologies 5. Gene Technology and the Mythology of the Legislative Process 6. Law and the Trajectory of Myth 7. Conclusion: Technology need not be Mythological Bibliography Index

David Grant, Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Law School and formerly Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney and Lyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, Australia

'This is a challenging and sophisticated book, with an original thesis. It is intriguing at many levels: part assessment of the new worlds of modern technologies, part a work of deeply engaged intellectual history, part itself a philosophy of history, part a treatise on the proper relations between law, regulation and technology. Underlying all this is a philosophically deeply grounded plea that we not succumb to ''mythologising'' the new technologies, as we have over ages succumbed to the (successive) mythologies of Deity, State and Market, but take responsibility for our lives. It is a timely, powerful and arresting work.'--Martin Krygier, UNSW Sydney, Australia

• Contents: Introduction 2. The Mythological Trajectory 3. Science and Mythology 4. Attitudes towards Emerging Technologies 5. Gene Technology and the Mythology of the Legislative Process 6. Law and the Trajectory of Myth 7. Conclusion: Technology need not be Mythological Bibliography Index