The video just came out; it starts at minute 4:27 of:
“You Say You Want a Revolution” with:
• Drew Endy, Stanford University & The BioBricks Foundation
• David Glazer, Google
• Steve Jurvetson, DFJ & Synthetic Genomics, Inc.
• Chris Waller, Merck
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy Media
And a summary article that runs with my parenting metaphor.
And for the afternoon agenda today, I named the 3:25pm session, and at 4:15pm, Juan Enriquez’s new book “Evolving Ourselves” should be interesting:
“For billions of years life on Earth was guided by Darwin’s two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Over the past century humans have become so powerful that they now select what lives and dies on half of the planet, and they genetically engineer viruses, bacteria, plants, animals, and even the next human generations. This un-natural state has doubled our life spans but rapid evolution and selection can also have side effects like autism, obesity and allergies. What are some of the consequences for health, ethics, and business when we take control of our own evolution?”
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