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Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

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There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.

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If you judge by what people do to improve their health, they value their lives highly. So adding to your period of vitality is something that most people would certainly do. If there was a pill that would do that, it's clear that everyone would take it.

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Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

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As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

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No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

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We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything that we love. When you're beginning to rot a little bit, all of the videos crammed into your head, all of the extensions that extend your various powers, are going to being to seem a little secondary.

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The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.

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