Tag: Geoff Brumfiel

Me: I’m really interested in the future human part that Ian talked about. (Geoff scans)

Geoff: I think people aren’t gonna improve themselves but their kids.

i.e. IVF, selection. Talk with Rob Stein. CRISPR, advanced IVF and some pre-implantation screening so that you can see what you’re implanting and how that’s going to shape things. It’s not like drugging your soldiers is anything new. There’s pretty effective screening against Down’s now. And so advocates worry if there arent enough of them, support structures go away. Fewer disabled kids, services become harder to come by.

As you get into tweaking for intelligence and all that, that’s a Gattaca like outcome. The other thing you gotta do is climate change. So you should find some good climate scientists to talk to about that. The challenge will be thoughtfulness without cataclysmic. I want to hear how things actually play out.

Gavin Schmidt, who people always talk to. Chris Joyce might have other suggestions. He’s good about people to not be totally doom and gloom.

“I’m sending you something I wrote 10 years ago! Like any good journalist.”