Jamie Metzl is a leading futurist, geopolitical expert, science fiction novelist, and media commentator and a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council who has served in the White House, State Department, and United Nations.In February 2019, Jamie was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on developing global standards for the governance and oversight of human genome editing. In addition to Hacking Darwin: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Humanity, he has written a history of the Cambodian genocide, the historical novel The Depths of the Sea, the genetics sci-fi thrillers Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata. www.jamiemetzl.com.
"Jamie Metzl's book - ranging through genetics, human destiny
and the future -- is an incredible trove of information for
scientists, futurists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and virtually
every intrigued, interested reader. A gifted and thoughtful writer,
Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and
reveals a world full of promise and peril. This is a must-read
book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author
of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene: An Intimate
History
"In many ways, Jamie Metzl has been preparing Hacking
Darwin for the last 20 years and his diligence shines through.
Jamie is a gifted writer and his explanation of genetics are crisp,
accurate, and wonderfully engaging. If you can only read one book
on the future of our species, this is it." - Sanjay Gupta MD,
bestseller author, neurosurgeon, and Emmy-award winning chief
medical correspondent (CNN)
"Whether you already run the whitewater of transhumanism or oppose
changing one atom of any species, you will see we have a revolution
in our midst one of engineering genes, possibly surpassing the
space, atomic, and electronic revolutions in its significance. It
is a transformation we ignore at great risk. To help prepare
us for what's coming, Jamie Metzl guides us brilliantly down the
twisting and ever-changing river of our genetic future in this
important and thought-provoking book. Beyond the issues of efficacy
and safety, he thoughtfully explores the ultimately more critical
issues of diversity, equality, and respect for each other and our
common humanity." - George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard
Medical School and author of Regenesis
"Jamie Metzl's Hacking Darwin is an outstanding guide to
the most important conversation of our lives -- how we humans will
hijack our evolutionary process and transcend the limits of our own
biology." - Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futurist, author of The
Singularity is Near and How to Create a Mind
"Jamie Metzl possesses a nearly superhuman ability to take in vast
amounts of research and synthesize it into disruptive,
beautifully-wrought prose. To borrow a term from the book,
Hacking Darwin is an intellectual masterbatortium-at once
stimulating
and consummately satisfying.
" - Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and New York Times
bestselling author of Blue Zones Solution and Blue Zones of
Happiness
"Genetic technologies contain extraordinary promise - and
breathtaking challenges - with the potential to change virtually
every aspect of our lives. In the pages of Hacking Darwin, Jamie
Metzl takes us on a critical journey through opportunities and
obstacles on humanity's greatest expedition: the exploration and
re-imagining of what it means to be human." - Eric Garcetti, Mayor
of Los Angeles
"Jamie Metzl has written a personal, funny, unpretentious and
ultimately deeply optimistic book about how the human race will
transform itself through genomics. In his enthusiastic embrace of
our technological future, Metzl gives voice to the adventure of
biological discovery without losing sight of the
risks. Hacking Darwin is a witty introduction to a wide
variety of themes within genomics, and is at its most profound when
imagining not just the science, but the social and geopolitical
reactions that will accrue throughout the world. Metzl writes about
real science with the flair of a science fiction writer, and in the
process challenges us to begin a complex but necessary conversation
about how humanity will evolve." - Robert C. Green, MD, MPH,
Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School
"This wildly exciting and highly accessible book kidnaps us on a
ride to the future, demonstrating in thrilling detail how our
species' ability to transform and improve the genetic makeup of our
offspring will explode over the course of our lifetimes and beyond.
Even as a scientist working in the field of human longevity and
genetics, this book blew my mind. It should be required reading for
scientists, doctors, and anybody else whose life and those of their
children will be touched by genetic technologies - which is just
about all of us. Our world is changing rapidly, and we could have
no better guide to the profound opportunities, challenges, and
ethical complexities of the genetics revolution than Jamie Metzl."
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"Jamie Metzl's Hacking Darwin should be required reading for
business executive, scientists, worriers, and dreamers -- for
anyone interested in the future of science and humanity. Bit
by bit, with wit and grace, he shows how we are rebuilding the very
notion of what it means to be human, and how we will inevitably be
changed in that process." - Debora Spar, author of The Baby
Business and Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business
School
"Humans taking control of human evolution is happening now and it
could be the most significant thing we have done since we learned
how to make and use fire. When history looks back on this
period, it will not focus on the shiny objects that grab the
attention of media today, but rather on the tech breakthroughs that
Metzl explains in such clear language. Hacking
Darwin is essential reading if you want to understand what
will be seen as the most important thing happening in this epoch."
- Richard A. Clarke, bestselling author of Warnings and former
White House National Security official
"The bio-sciences revolution is coming at us faster than we realize
and what better guide to its possibilities than Jamie Metzl.
Hacking Darwin is a compelling read ahead of our genetic future,
breathtaking on one hand, thought provoking and challenging on the
other. A must read and entertaining guide if you care to know what
lies ahead and what to do about it." - James Manyika, Chairman,
McKinsey Global Institute.
"Evolution has changed since Darwin's time. We are driving
unnatural selection and nonrandom mutation. This gives us the power
to alter all species, including ourselves. So the key emerging
debate is: Should we redesign humans? Why? How far? How fast? Metzl
lays out what we can do now, what we might be able to do, in an
engaging, nontechnical way. Let the debate begin." -
Juan Enriquez, co-author Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning
the Future of Humanity - One Gene at a Time
"Numerous books explain the genetic revolution now in progress;
this one describes where it might lead, and it's a wild ride...a
thoughtful, exciting, and mostly accessible account of how genetic
manipulation will vastly improve our species. Miracles will happen,
if not quite yet.
" - Kirkus Reviews
"A highly readable compendium of next-gen advice for the
implementation and management of next-gen science.
" - Publishers Weekly
"Hacking Darwin paints a picture of our future that is both
exciting and hopeful as well as dangerous and terrifying.
Brilliantly written and deeply thought provoking, it is a must read
- for the entire planet. I could not put it down, reading it
in a single sitting." - Michael Morell, Former Acting and Deputy
Director, CIA
"Timely, important, and thorough exploration of how inheritance
will evolve from natural selection to a human-controlled
generation-by-generation data hack. " - David Sable, Forbes.com
"Hacking Darwin...paints a picture that is at once wondrous and
terrifying. Metzl writes with great clarity and a sense of urgency
that we should all take to heart." - NPR Books
"Metzl has a knack both for clarifying granular scientific and
moral complexities, and for seeing the big picture." -
Nature.com
"In Hacking Darwin... world-famous futurist Jamie Metzl appeals to
all humans of good will to together face the ethical and social
problems raised by human genetic engineering." - Osservatore
Romano (the official Vatican newspaper)
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