Don't you think the distinction between healing and augmenting is going to get blurry? It's already blurry. We're likely to have some real decisions as a species about how much augmentation we think is okay. The lines are blurring, I have some strong lines about it, and I can talk to you about them. If we stray outside these boundaries and try to augment ourselves outside these, the triangle, I think we get into trouble.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is an oncologist, professor, researcher, and biotech entrepreneur. He’s also a writer, and a fine one at that. His first book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” won a Pulitzer Prize. His second, “The Gene: An Intimate History,” shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and was made into a documentary by Ken Burns. In his latest book, “The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human,” he says our radical new ability to manipulate cells is changing how we treat everything from Alzheimer’s to cancer.
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