genesis code | Jamie Metzl

May 1, 2016

Homo Sapiens 2.0? We Need a Species-Wide Conversation on the Future of Human Genetic Enhancement

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In my article in TechCrunch, released today, I call for a species-wide conversation on the future of human genetic enhancement. Such a dialogue has never before been carried out. We…

December 19, 2014

Sony, North Korea, and Human Rights

Sony, North Korea, and Human Rights Jamie Metzl Jamie Metzl https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png December 19, 2014 December 19, 2014

The recent cyberattack on Sony, allegedly perpetrated by North Korea, highlights a dangerous increase in the vulnerability of our globalized world.

December 3, 2014

Books as Sacred Objects

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I hope you’ll have a look at my new bookreporter.com piece on books as sacred objects. “As a great lover of books, I felt myself not only drawn to their words,…

December 3, 2014

Books as Sacred Objects

I hope you’ll have a look at my bookreporter.com piece on books as sacred objects. In it, I explore the challenges to the physical book in a digital world where words…

October 14, 2014

If GMOs worry you, what will you think of genetically modified humans?

If GMOs worry you, what will you think of genetically modified humans? https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Jamie Metzl Jamie Metzl https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png October 14, 2014 October 14, 2014

In my Foreign Affairs article out this week, I argue that we need to do a lot more thinking about the implications of the genetics revolution. It seems crazy to…

August 22, 2014

Our Genetic Future is Coming… Faster Than We Think

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Our species is on the cusp of a revolution that will change every aspect of our lives but we’re hardly talking about it.

After three and a half billion years of evolution, two hundred and fifty thousand years of them as the ass-kicking bipedal hominins we call homo sapiens, we are on the verge of taking control of our evolutionary process unlike never before. This revolution will take hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years to play out but it has already begun.