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Joining me on the Ruben Report today is a futurist, a geopolitical expert and author

of several books including Hacking Darwin, Genetic Engineering, and the future of humanity.

Jamie Metzell, welcome to the Ruben Report.

Thrilled to be here Dave.

I'm glad to have you here sir because I watched you on Joe Rogan and I was like, I've got

to talk to this guy about all of this crazy futuristic stuff.

It's crazy, our world is changing and it's going to change whether we like it or not and

better for people to understand what's happening and be part of the process of change rather

than just sit back and let it happen to us.

Alright, so I'm pretty sure we're going to have a dense hour of exactly that but before

we get into the new book and really the meat of all of this, how does one become a futurist?

You know, it's a funny question or there's a funny answer.

So for my whole life, I've really been thinking about what's coming next.

When I was in law school, there were a group of us who were thinking about what is the

information technology revolution going to mean and this is the very early days of the

internet than the World Wide Web and we were thinking we were writing about it and so

I have a lot of articles from those early days that were imagining the world that we

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