Could Gene Editing Turn You Into Captain America?

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🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Scientists are on the brink of creating super humans that are stronger than Chris Evans and faster than Usain Bolt. But should we? Jamie Metzl, author of the book “Hacking Darwin,” joins Nick to discuss the future of gene editing, why eradicating disease could ruin our ability to create art, and how China could be using CRISPR to breed a terrifying new type of super soldier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns
0:09.5	Thursday, November 16th.
0:11.6	Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion
0:15.6	podcast.
0:16.6	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. All right, so we're gonna do what Nick Bilton does best,
0:25.3	and that is Scare the Be Jesus out of you.
0:28.2	My guest today is Jamie Metzel.
0:30.6	He is a futurist, geopolitical expert, science fiction novelist, media
0:34.6	commenter, and he has a new book out called Hacking Darwin, which is talking about how gene
0:40.7	editing is going to be the next big thing in humanity and it is going to change us
0:45.4	humans forever.
0:46.8	Imagine this scenario, for example, if you could edit your kids genes to make them so they're
0:52.4	taller, they can run faster, they can see better than 20-20 vision.
0:56.0	Maybe they have a little less empathy so they're better in business.
0:59.0	Maybe they have more empathy so they're kinder, but then they get beat up more in school.
1:03.0	We are going to create a completely new species of superhuman
1:07.2	and whether we like it or not, this is what's going to happen.
1:10.0	And Jamie is here to talk to me about that.
1:11.7	One of the truly terrifying aspects of this
1:13.7	is that while the West has a viewpoint on this
1:17.0	and they think about religion and the role of technology
1:20.4	and society and how far we should push things, as Jamie is going to talk about the
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