A Chinese researcher states that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-exclusive-first-gene-edited-023839746.html A U.S. scientist said he took part in the work in China, but this kind of gene editing is […]

The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari worries about a lot. He worries that Silicon Valley is undermining democracy and ushering in a dystopian hellscape in which voting is obsolete. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/business/yuval-noah-harari-silicon-valley.html He worries that by creating powerful influence machines to control billions of minds, the big tech companies are destroying the idea of a sovereign individual […]