29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not
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Genetic Engineering Is a Bigger Category Than Gen Editing, Right?
i think we're moving toward the end of procreative sex, and then it's going to be using stem sels to create a virtually unlimited number of eggs. And that introduces this concept of biological induced variability which is very biological. We're going to be able to screw with nature in ways that are counterintuitive even though people get intellectually countersupervised by technology. But we somehow feel like we're kind of that this biology is our homosapian biology - I'm a homosapians. My kids are homosapia; my parents are homosapsias. So i can re-write life as an organism from one state to another almost four years later.
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