Francis Wheen
Francis Wheen
Francis James Baird Wheenis a British journalist, writer and broadcaster...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth22 January 1957
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This is the bizarre thing. This exact period I'm writing about is also a period of the most extraordinary scientific and technological achievement, from the mapping of the human genome to the creation of the internet. It seems paradoxical that there should be this proliferation of mumbo jumbo at a time of such immense change and upheaval, but that may be a partial explanation for it.