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A bold, inspiring, and multi-disciplinary exploration of cutting-edge human knowledge and capabilities—and how to harness their awesome, but terrifying potential In Superconvergence, leading futurist and OneShared.World founder Jamie Metzl explores how genome sequencing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are not only changing our lives, but catalyzing each other in radical and accelerating ways. These technologies h...

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An accessible book on the controversial effect genetic engineering will have on the future of the world.

Erstmals in ihrer Geschichte besitzt die Menschheit das Handwerkszeug, um den eigenen Genpool zu verändern. Welche Möglichkeiten die Gentechnik bietet und welche Verantwortung daraus erwächst, diskutiert der amerikanische Autor und Technologie-Experte Jamie Metzl. Metzl geht von zwei so simplen wie überzeugenden Annahmen aus: Wenn die Menschheit eine Technologie entwickelt hat, hat sie sie bisher immer auch angewendet. Und wenn Eltern ihren K...

Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity.

A few dead bodies are a small price to pay in the quest for immortality.In 2025 America, it's hardly news when a renowned octogenarian scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice, but when Kansas City Star reporter Rich Azadian begins to dig, he discovers that other elderly scientists around the world have also vanished recently-all terminally ill and receiving the same experimental treatment from a global health company. His inv...

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This study examines Western responses to human rights abuses in Cambodia between 1975 and 1980, years which included the murderous rule of the Khmer Rouge regime, a Vietnamese invasion, a civil war, and a famine. It argues that the Vietnamese invasion of December 1978 forced Western states to choose between the conflicting principles of promoting the individual human rights of the Cambodian people and furthering the geostrategic interests of t...