{"id":102547,"date":"2020-02-19T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/homo-sapiens-2-0-we-need-a-species-wide-conversation-about-the-future-of-human-genetic-enhancement"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:03:24","slug":"homo-sapiens-2-0-we-need-a-species-wide-conversation-about-the-future-of-human-genetic-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/homo-sapiens-2-0-we-need-a-species-wide-conversation-about-the-future-of-human-genetic-enhancement","title":{"rendered":"Homo Sapiens 2.0? We need a species-wide conversation about the future of human genetic enhancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pp17E4E-O8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And the revolution has already begun.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s genetic moment is not the stuff of science fiction. It\u2019s not Jules Verne\u2019s fanciful 1865 prediction of a moon landing a century before it occurred. It\u2019s more equivalent to President Kennedy\u2019s 1962 announcement that America would send men to the moon within a decade. All of the science was in place when Kennedy gave his Houston speech. The realization was inevitable; only the timing was at issue. Neil Armstrong climbed down the Apollo 11 ladder seven years later.<\/p>\n<p>We have all the tools we need to alter the genetic makeup of our species. The science is here. The realization is inevitable. Timing is the only variable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the revolution has already begun. Today\u2019s genetic moment is not the stuff of science fiction. It\u2019s not Jules Verne\u2019s fanciful 1865 prediction of a moon landing a century before it occurred. It\u2019s more equivalent to President Kennedy\u2019s 1962 announcement that America would send men to the moon within a decade. All of the science [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}