Welcome to the show.

I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's

most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that

you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

Now lately, we can't even turn on the news without clenching every sphincter in our

body just bracing for the next disaster.

Whether it's a mass shooting, terrorism or some other catastrophe of our own making, it's

pretty clear that there's a small percentage of the population that just wants to kill

as many people as possible before they leave this world.

Fortunately, most nihilistic killers like these don't have access to nuclear weapons, but

what if they had access to something equally dangerous?

What if everybody did?

Today on the show, we're talking to my friend Rob Reed.

He's a science fiction writer and recently spoke at TED about synthetic biology.

One bio is the relatively new field of gene splicing and genetic engineering.

We're doing this all the time, but it's expensive and complex.

Today, we'll discuss the coming advances in this technology and how they can be used

to create a super bug that could wipe out millions of people and how this technology

might soon be available to almost any academic institution or even the garage of one of your

neighbors.

...