Yo, technology.

What is it all about?

I think a real inflection point may happen, though, when the safety and effectiveness of editing becomes so strong that billionaires really can produce super children.

And once word of that gets out, people are going to really pause and say, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Like Donald Trump's kid is, you know, six foot four and has an IQ of 200 and seems like he's

going to live to be 200 years old.

How come he gets to do that and we don't get to do that.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

I'm your host, Danny Fortson, the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times coming to you from London.

I am in the big smoke this week running around to from meeting to meeting, kind of with my hair

on fire. It's very weird to be in a big city with lots of people running around. It's kind of like

a shock to the system after two years of lockdown and kind of

relatively sleepy Silicon Valley just in terms of the sheer numbers of people and energy

relative to like being on the train at Rush Hour in London, Yauza, different world.

But it's also kind of great.

But anyhow, this week's episode, man, we have a mindbender for you. So this is an interview I did

last week right before I left. And it's about genomics and how we are entering this entirely

new era of, if not designer babies,

certainly being able to choose children on a whole array of characteristics.

We're starting with things like their proclivities for a number of diseases like cancer or schizophrenia,

but it's also possible today to choose embryos that are based on potential IQ, skin tone, eye color.

You can see where this is going.

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