687: Amy Webb | Changing Lives with Synthetic Biology
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Amy Webb (@amywebb) is an author and the founder and CEO of The Future Today Institute -- a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. Her latest book is The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology.
What We Discuss with Amy Webb:- Synthetic biology will change the world in three key areas: medicine, food, and the environment.
- How pandemics might be wiped out by engineering immunity to deadly diseases on demand before they have a chance to take hold. (Alternatively, how pandemics might be created by engineering new diseases against which we have no defense.)
- Forget waiting your turn on the donor list: we'll be able to print new vital, life-sustaining organs from scratch instead of relying on unpredictable supply.
- When we have the ability to resurrect extinct species, will we possess the wisdom to prudently decide what lives again and what stays dead forever?
- How meat can be grown from cells in labs without slaughtering animals and consuming the resources necessary to sustain them.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.1 | There are the much more real potential problems of things like cyber, bio, malware. |
| 0:09.7 | The way that SynBioWorks is you still need computers or developing code. |
| 0:14.4 | You have to write the code, edit the code, you send the code to a printer, you send it |
| 0:18.7 | to a manufacturer. |
| 0:20.3 | And it's been proven more than once that there are vulnerabilities in that system and you |
| 0:25.3 | could create totally benign biological code. |
| 0:29.2 | But you could inject malware in the process, meaning you could send off a benign sample |
| 0:34.0 | and get back a deadly virus. |
| 0:36.8 | Now luckily that hasn't happened yet, but there are, you know, it's not like human scientists |
| 0:41.4 | are standing with a pipette, you know, and individual test tubes. |
| 0:45.0 | All this stuff relies on AI, the cloud, 5G, on tech. |
| 0:49.3 | And tech is insecure. |
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