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BIOENHANCEMENTS. "Interventions that are being investigated in the literature range from various types of psychopharmaceuticals, deep brain stimulation (DBS), and genetic selection and engineering." https://lnkd.in/ek6trfJ View in LinkedIn

CONVERGENCE. "As the NBIC convergence becomes more understood, the possibility that we may be able to enhance human performance in the three domains of therapy, augmentation, and designed evolution will become anticipated and even expected." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/annals.1305.010/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage= View in LinkedIn

NBIC WILL TRANSFORM. "The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) is creating a set of powerful tools that have the potential to significantly enhance human performance as well as transform society, science, economics, and human evolution." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/annals.1305.010/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage= View in LinkedIn

HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY. "Never before has any civilization had the unique opportunity to enhance human performance on the scale that we will face in the near future." https://lnkd.in/ebKCuCE View in LinkedIn

CURIOUSLY, we usually associate innovation with humans. But the master innovator is nature. View in LinkedIn

INNOVATION. "Human beings are obsessive innovators. Homo sapiens (knower) is by nature Homo faber (fabricator). Life without what philosopher Michael Novak has called ‘the fire of invention’ doubtless would be nasty, bloody, and brutish." https://lnkd.in/ejS2tMH View in LinkedIn

EXTRAPOLATION. “Loladze scoured the scientific literature for any studies and data he could find. The results, as he collected them, all seemed to point in the same direction: The junk-food effect he had learned about in that Arizona lab also appeared to be occurring in fields and forests around the world.” https://lnkd.in/eq-SAGC View in LinkedIn

"WHAT IF we could communicate with each other simply by thinking about it?” https://lnkd.in/evPViuJ View in LinkedIn

CO2 IMPACT ON PLANTS. “It was already well documented that CO2 levels were rising in the atmosphere, but he was astonished at how little research had been done on how it affected the quality of the plants we eat.” https://lnkd.in/eq-SAGC View in LinkedIn

CRISPR gene-editing corrects muscular dystrophy in pigs. The future is here. https://lnkd.in/embmggk View in LinkedIn