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Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac F. Silvera called Franklin an "unconventional thinker" who "is going to be one of the bright stars of the high energy future...
...Galileo, Rene Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton and other scientists had clarified the principles by which machines work, an essential step in building ever better machines. Henceforth Western civilization's technological supremacy was beyond challenge. Mechanical invention led inexorably to another step in the West's commercial and political hegemony over the world: the Industrial Revolution...
...because Sarah was something of a traditionalist, she opted to carry the baby herself rather than enlist the services of either an artificial womb or one of the center's 18-year-old surrogate mothers. A round of hormone therapy rejuvenated Sarah's uterus, and nine months later Isaac was born...
Sarah proudly admits that she would not change a thing. "I didn't want to have children until I was ready," the septuagenarian says with a laugh. "Now, Abe and I are emotionally and financially secure. We can offer Isaac all the advantages that we didn't have ourselves as kids...
...Isaac will have advantages that his parents may not even have imagined. He will probably be enrolled in a nursery school where one of the most important people on the staff is a physician, Dr. Horatio Dean. The school's focus is summed up by a banner proclaiming that HEALTHY HABITS LAST A LIFETIME. Each day at noon, instead of recess, Dr. Dean gathers together his charges for a meditation session that the usually rambunctious youngsters particularly enjoy. "Pediatrics sure has changed since my grandmother's day," says the young doctor...