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If You Could Use Gene Therapy To Change Others, Would You?
Technologies I wrote about 20 years ago may be available soon
The original title of this article was “If you could use gene therapy to change yourself.” I changed it, because I realized, the way that people like “House Collins” (Malcolm & Simone Collins — a former Google employee and his wife) who have been profiled by Jules Evans here on Medium, think, is so foreign to me that I have difficulty comprehending there is an actual couple who believe that through genetic manipulation they can … I’ll just quote ’em …
Our descendants will eventually become indistinguishable from gods in our eyes…Our job is to tend a garden in which the divine germinates and grows.
I am a science fiction writer, and based on reading the profile that Jules put together outlining the thoughts, venture capital-raising plans, and “future police” and eugenics enthusiasms of the Collins couple, who believe that couples like them should have as many children as possible and use as much genetic manipulation as could possibly be imagined to produce “Godlike” descendants which would be worshipped …
