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The Future of Upgrading Humans and the Military - Andrew Herr : 540

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

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The Transhumanist Mindset

"I feel like my biology has a lot of runway I haven't taken advantage of yet," he says. "We need to think about biology as Rob Carlson, who's the Carlson curve or the guy who first plotted this incredible speed with which DNA sequencing was falling in price and increasing in speed" The iGEM competition isn't just about humans; it's also about how we can use biology as a technology,. You can create tank armor, you can grow tank armor in a vat, for example.

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