095: The Genetic Revolution and "Hacking Darwin" with Jamie Metzl

Technology futurist and geopolitical expert, Jamie Metzl discusses the genetic revolution that will transform healthcare, the way we make babies, and our evolution as a species.

Guest Biography

Jamie Metzl is a technology futurist and geopolitical expert, novelist, entrepreneur, media commentator, and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. In February 2019, he was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on developing global standards for the governance and oversight of human genome editing. Jamie previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations in Cambodia. He is a former Partner of a New York-based global investment firm, serves on the Advisory Council to Walmart's Future of Retail Policy Lab, is a faculty member for Singularity University's Exponential Medicine conference, was Chief Strategy Officer for a biotechnology company, and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's Fifth Congressional District in Kansas City in 2004. Jamie has served as an election monitor in Afghanistan and the Philippines, advised the government of North Korea on the establishment of Special Economic Zones, and is the Honorary Ambassador to North America of the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy.

Jamie appears regularly on national and international media discussing Asian economic and political issues and his syndicated columns and other writing on Asian affairs, genetics, virtual reality, and other topics are featured regularly in publications around the world. He is the author of a history of the Cambodian genocide, the historical novel The Depths of the Sea, and the genetics thrillers Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata. His non-fiction book Hacking Darwin: Genetic Revolution and the Future of Humanity, published by Sourcebooks, can be purchased here.

A founder and Co-Chair of the national security organization Partnership for a Secure America, Jamie is a board member of the International Center for Transitional Justice and the American University in Mongolia, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Brandeis International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations is a former White House Fellow and Aspen Institute Crown Fellow. Jamie holds a Ph.D. in Asian history from Oxford, a JD from Harvard Law School, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.

Jamie speaks frequently to corporate, nonprofit, and academic audiences around the world.

Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/095

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why Jamie thinks most of us are wasting our time, and major trends that he believes we should be paying attention to.
• Learn about biohacking, how the paradigm of healthcare could be changing, and the tools of the genetic revolution.
• We'll talk about ethics and the role that China plays in genetics, artificial intelligence, technology and more.

Find more from our guest:

• jamiemetzl.com
• hackingdarwin.com
• Twitter
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

Mentioned in this episode:

• Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl
• Genesis Code: A Thriller of the Near Future by Jamie Metzl
• Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future by Jamie Metzl
• The Depths of the Sea by Jamie Metzl
• Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, 1975–80 by Jamie Metzl
• Richard A. Clarke
• Jennifer Doudna of the "CRISPR revolution"
• Game of Thrones
• Battle Star Galactica
• Cobra Kai
• Joe Rogan Experience #1294 - Jamie Metzl
• Jamie Metzl: "Hacking Darwin" | Talks at Google
• Are You Ready for the Genetic Revolution? | Jamie Metzl | TEDxPaloAlto
• Kim Kardashian
• Kanye West

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