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THE ULTIMATE REBOOT: "during the course of my research I found that technological discontinuities are the greatest single driver of long-term economic success…or failure. And the ability to understand and apply gene research is probably the greatest single discontinuity we have seen since the industrial revolution". (Juan Enriquez). " "" " http://lnkd.in/7EvgXw View in LinkedIn

JUAN ENRIQUEZ, from HBS, on the Knowledge Economy. "Over the millennia, the most important language has gone from Egyptian, to Greek and Latin, to French, to English, to binary. Today the most important language you can teach your kids is genetics. Those who refuse to learn will be functionally illiterate and unable to understand, much less compete in, a rapidly changing economy. We rarely understand and debate the greatest single driver of wealth and growth, which is knowledge". " "" " http://lnkd.in/7EvgXw View in LinkedIn

FIRST HUMAN MIND MELD. Awesome step! View in LinkedIn

NEW HUMAN SPECIES?"humans are the only hominid species on Earth, but it seems unlikely to remain the case, notes Juan Enriquez, CEO of Biotechnomy, a life-sciences investment firm, and a founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School. “We’re now no more than a generation or two away from the emergence of an entirely new kind of hominid,” he says. “Homo evolutus: a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over its own evolution and the evolution of other species.”" " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn

GENETIC SELF-DETERMINATION." "“Exponentially growing technology changes the evolutionary discussion,” says Andrew Hessel, co-chair of bioinformatics and biotechnology at Singularity University. “If you follow the patterns out, you very quickly see that this is the century we take control over our genome."" " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn

ACCELERATING LONGEVITY. "Humans are a 200,000-year-old species. When we first emerged our life span was 20 years. By the turn of the 20th century it had become 44 years. We advanced by 24 years over the course of 200,000 years. But today, it’s 80 years. These simple improvements doubled our longevity in a century.” " " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn

FOGEL's TECHNO-PHYSIO EVOLUTION, explains the faster rate of human evolution in the past 300 years in his book The Changing Body (2011). “In the past hundred years, humans have gained an unprecedented degree of control over their environment, a degree of control so great that it sets them apart not only from all other species, but from all previous generations of Homo sapiens.”" " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn

ACCELERATING HUMAN EVOLUTION? (Fogel). “Over the past 300 years, humans have increased their average body size by over 50 percent, average longevity by more than 100 percent, and greatly improved the robustness and capacity of vital organ systems. From an evolutionary perspective, 300 years is an eyeblink. A sneeze. Not nearly enough time for these sorts of radical improvements."" " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn

ENRIQUEZ on Homo Evolutis. “We will likely see glimpses of this long-lived, partly mechanical, partly regrown creature that continues to rapidly drive its own evolution. As the branches of the tree of life, and of hominids, continue to grow and spread, many of our grandchildren will likely engineer themselves into what we would consider a new species, one with extraordinary capabilities, a homo evolutis."" " http://lnkd.in/ndKDiV View in LinkedIn

HOMO EVOLUTIS (.Authors: Steve Gullans and Juan Enriquez). "Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy, Enriquez says that humanity is on the verge of becoming a new and utterly unique species, which he dubs Homo Evolutis. What makes this species so unique is that it "takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of the species." Calling it the "ultimate reboot," he points to the conflux of DNA manipulation and therapy, tissue generation, and robotics as making this great leap possible."" " http://lnkd.in/NN569F View in LinkedIn