Rob Reid : How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity — and how we can stop it

Rob Reid·TED2019  (transcript)
How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity-and how we can stop it
Summary
In the past, everyone was opposed to gene recombination strongly. However, we must have forgotten it completely since we knew about food shortages and technology growth is great. We now crave enough food, entertainments, beauty, cleverness, health, energy, and even eternal lives. For them, animals' genes are edited, plants' genes edited, and your babies genes must be edited.

However, it doesn’t show that all people can be beautiful actresses who are like Ariana Grande. Just a small part of people can be, it’s less than winning a lottery, and most of the people and our important humanity are absolutely wiped out. It shows the most dangerous event we haven’t ever seen.

The speaker suggests some ideas that it can stop, though, we see that technology growth is more looking attractive in the world. The feeling dangerous is being vague.

Words in this story
nihilistic /adj/ rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.
vague /véɪg/adj/of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning