Walter Isaacson

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Walter Isaacson is an American author, journalist, and professor. Walter joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his work as a biographer, that it's important to remember that all people are human, and how much more inspiring they are when you realize that. Walter explains the three great innovation revolutions of modern times, how transformative Jennifer Doudna's gene editing work is, and how she used her knowledge of CRISPR to help with the fight against covid. Dax and Walter discuss the dilemma of editing out certain negative traits and the effects it can have on shaping a person and the importance of trying to maximize the Utopia of gene editing while minimizing the many unforeseen issues that will arise. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Walter Cronkite and I'm joined by
0:06.8	Leslie Stahl. Hello there. Is that what she sounds like? Exactly. Thank you. Oh my
0:12.4	gosh speaking of speaking of. Speaking of.
0:14.7	I did you get some shmere on you? There's a documentary on Audrey Hepburn. Oh. And I started it and she kind of has a similar voice to Catherine Hepburn.
0:27.0	Oh, like, that? Well, no. Oh, okay.
0:35.0	Listen, this is disrespectful to our guest because we have an incredible guest.
0:39.0	I know.
0:40.0	Just one of the best biographers.
0:42.0	One of the best biographers in the business. His name is Walter Isaacson.
0:45.2	Walter is an American author, journalist, and professor. He has been the president and
0:49.0	CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C.
0:54.9	The chair and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time.
0:58.7	You want to talk about a Polymath.
1:00.0	You're talking about Walter.
1:01.8	Now his books, Steve Jobs, very huge famous book.
1:05.2	Bill Gates favorite book, Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and
1:10.3	he has a new book called The Code Breaker.
1:13.0	The genius at the center of the Code Breaker is American biochemist and Nobel Peace winner Jennifer
1:19.3	Dowdna.
1:21.0	This is a fascinating story.
1:22.0	It is. This is a story story. It is.
1:23.0	This is a story of CRISPR.
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