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GENETICALLY ENGINEERED HUMANS We are fast approaching what is arguably the most consequential technological threshold in all of human history: the ability to directly manipulate
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GENETICALLY ENGINEERED HUMANS We are fast approaching what is arguably the most consequential technological threshold in all of human history: the ability to directly manipulate the genes we pass on to our children. These technologies are being developed and actively campaigned for by an influential network of scientists and others who see themselves ushering in a new epoch for human life on earth. They look forward to the day when parents quite literally assemble their children from genes listed in a catalogue. They celebrate a future in which our common humanity is lost as a genetically-enhanced elite increasingly acquires the attributes of a separate species. There is little public awareness of the full implications of the new human genetic technologies or of the campaign underway to promote them. There are few popular institutions, and there is no social or political movement, critically addressing the immense challenges these technologies pose. If we are to...
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