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Science, Technology and Ethics: Hacking Darwin with Jamie Metzl, PhD
Jamie Metzl, PhD, JD, and polymath extraordinaire, writes “From this point onward, our species will take active control of our evolutionary process by genetically altering our future offspring into something different from what we are today. We are, in other words, beginning a process of hacking Darwin.” This is a quote from his latest book, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity.
“We’ve never conducted a species-wide conversation on our future.”
This new work has caught the attention of the experts — CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, Ray Kurzweil, Harvard genetics superstar George Church, and even former acting CIA director Mike Morell, and related pieces in the New York Times, FT, The Economist, and TechCrunch. And understandably so, as the genetics revolution that will transform our healthcare, the way we make babies, the nature of the babies we make, and ultimately our evolution as a species has already begun. It will arrive far sooner than most of us think and will transform our lives and the world around us in ways we can…
