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Hacking Darwin
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity | Jamie Metzl
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After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules... From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the (…more)
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RamsFan1963
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Although the author was given to moving down odd tangents, I found the book enlightening. Some fear the idea of modified human, some welcome the idea of creating an elite form of man. Of course any genetic engineering is frought with images of eugenics and the Nazis, but it's a future that's coming whether we want it or not. 3🧬🧬🧬 1/2
1st book finished for #ReadYourWay readathon. @TheSpineView

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Eventhough author goes off the track at many times it was a good read more about genetics than future. Author wants a discussion to happen among society due to this book which will definitely happen. Mainly because of some taboo topics which he broke

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Each technological revolution enables the next, and the time between each revolution becomes shorter and the impact bigger. Futurist Ray Kurzweil called this process the “Law of Accelerating Returns.” Kurzweil predicted that the entire amount of technological change achieved in the twentieth century would be achieved in only the first fourteen years of the twenty-first century

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Loving it so far🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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