Get Ready For A New Human Species

[The One]

Now that we can rewrite the code of life, Darwinian evolution can’t stop us, says investor Juan Enriquez.

The ability to engineer life is going to spark a revolution that will dwarf the industrial and digital revolutions, says Juan Enriquez, a writer, investor, and managing director of Excel Venture Management http://www.emven.com/index.html. Thanks to new genomics technologies, scientists have not only been able to read organisms’ genomes faster than ever before, they can also write increasingly complex changes into those genomes, creating organisms with new capabilities.





Enriquez, above who spoke at Technology Review’s EmTech conference on Tuesday, says our newfound ability to write the code of life will profoundly change the world as we know it. Because we can engineer our environment and ourselves, humanity is moving beyond the constraints of Darwinian evolution. The result, he says, may be an entirely new species.

Enriquez is the author of the global bestseller As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth. His most recent publication is an eBook, Homo Evolutis: A Short Tour of Our New Species.

Technology Review senior editor Emily Singer spoke with Enriquez after his talk.

TR: Why do you think there is going to be a new human species?

Juan Enriquez: The new human species is one that begins to engineer the evolution of viruses, plants, animals, and itself. As we do that, Darwin’s rules get significantly bent, and sometimes even broken. By taking direct and deliberate control over our evolution, we are living in a world where we are modifying stuff according to our desires.


If you turned off the electricity in the United States, you would see millions of people die quickly, because they wouldn’t have asthma medications, respirators, insulin, a whole host of things we invented to prevent people from dying. Eventually, we get to the point where evolution is guided by what we’re engineering. That’s a big deal. Today’s plastic surgery is going to seem tame compared to what’s coming.

How is this impending revolution going to shape the world?

Ninety-eight percent of data transmitted today is in a language almost no one spoke 30 years ago. We’re in a similar period now. But this revolution will be more widespread because this is software that writes its own hardware.

People think this technology will just change pharma or biotech, but it’s much bigger than that. For example, it’s already changing the chemical industry. Forty percent of Dupont’s earnings today come from the life sciences. It’s going to change everything; it will change countries, who’s rich and who’s poor. It’s going to create new ethics.

New ethics?

It will change even basic questions like sex. There used to be one way to have a baby. Now there are at least 17. We have decoupled sex from time. You can have a baby in nine months, or you can freeze sperm or a fertilized egg and implant it in 10 years or 100 years. You can create an animal from one of its cells. You can begin to alter reproductive cells. By the time you put this together, you’ve fundamentally changed how you reproduce and the rules for reproduction

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=17752

[RMorgan]

Well, we´re not part of the Darwinian world for a long time already...

Anyway, engineering ourselves is very dangerous...We might end up as the Grays...

Cheers,

Raf

[Cidersomerset]

Thanks Theone I don't think we are the sole result of evolution and it makes more sence to me that a original aborigani ancient human was geoengineered by a more
advanced humonoid. The Annunaki spring to mind, but others may have added to mix as well. It makes sence that advances in clonning,stem cell and all parts of
biolgical engineering a new species will evolve,and according to reports with the various programmes this has been going on since WW11.Supersoldier etc..
Also the Grays and others have been doing ongoing studies & experiments with us for thousands of years if we believe that scenario.The more we are finding
out the less likely evolution is the sole answer imho....Steve

[Ria]

We know this has been going on for some time, what is new is that it is becoming more public.
What is most important, can we instill a code of ethics??????
Or monitor and refrain from all abuse????

[Andreash94]

Darwin was a mason ........-.- i rly hate these guys ....1'st i dint wan be a borg.and 2nd who wil control and control atm all tehnology...answer this for your self and youl kno you dont wan;t to see any tehnology anymore

[Seikou-Kishi]

Oh god, like this world isn't screwed enough with humans as they are!

[RMorgan]

Well, unfortunately, at all directions I look, all I can see is that the human race is doomed, one way or another...

[The One]

Posted by RMorgan (here)
Well, unfortunately, at all directions I look, all I can see is that the human race is doomed, one way or another...

Chicken Nuggets anyone

lol

Cuckoo

[Silo]

Science isn't about why? It's about why not?
--Cave Johnson

[The One]

Posted by Silo (here)
Science isn't about why? It's about why not?
--Cave Johnson

mmmm i beg to differ

Why are fruit pastles chewy

lol

[pharoah21]

So we can create a new human species.........but there's still no cure for Cancer, Aids or Diabetes.............?

[The One]

but there's still no cure for Cancer, Aids or Diabetes

We all know that there is probably a cure for every illness going.Its just the big boys would go out of buisiness if they cured us all.Just like the oil.gas ,electric companies if free energy was available.

[Silo]

Posted by The One (here)

Posted by Silo (here)
Science isn't about why? It's about why not?
--Cave Johnson

mmmm i beg to differ

Why are fruit pastles chewy

lol

It was a joke...

[The One]

Posted by Silo (here)

Posted by The One (here)

Posted by Silo (here)
Science isn't about why? It's about why not?
--Cave Johnson

mmmm i beg to differ

Why are fruit pastles chewy

lol

It was a joke...

So was mine my friend

[oceanz]

What would be the point in Genetically Modifying Humans if they give us legs but we aren't free to roam, mouths but we can't speak the truth.

We wouldn't be Human, we would be zombies.

That is why the CDC pretend to be tongue in cheek on how to handle zombies but in all seriousness how much of the population could already be classified as zombies.

[Carmody]

This is public science.

What about black ops?

hmmm?

[daledo]

Posted by pharoah21 (here)
So we can create a new human species.........but there's still no cure for Cancer, Aids or Diabetes.............?

If we are getting word about this now... the military has been involved for a long time. We can call them Super Soldiers

[TargeT]

FYI, this is a satanic agenda...

HUGE push in the music industry to "dehumanise humans and huminise robots" I think the idea behind this is getting the population used to this type of augmentation with the ultimate goal being something like this:

In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

I've found movies to be very good for extracting info if you know what to look for.. predictive programming is real and used ALL the time.

[Davidallany]

Well, we´re not part of the Darwinian world for a long time already...

Anyway, engineering ourselves is very dangerous...We might end up as the Grays...

Cheers,

Raf

Yeah, really. As far as I am concerned current humanity is still in the bronze ages when it comes to medical knowledge, still using knives and scissors to operate, just like butchers, thanks to the suppression of technology and creativity.

[ghostrider]

movies have numbed us to the pain of death, making it ho hum when someone is murded. the new species could be a world of clones, cause we will acend and leave this planet.