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What will humans look like in 100 years?

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Juan Enriquez |

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• June 2016

We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals -- futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present day neuroengineering and genetics, Enriquez sorts out the ethics associated with evolving humans and imagines the ways we'll have to transform our own bodies if we hope to explore and live in places other than Earth.

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We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals -- futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present day neuroengineering and genetics, Enriquez sorts out the ethics associated with evolving humans and imagines the ways we'll have to transform our own bodies if we hope to explore and live in places other than Earth.

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Author, academic, futurist

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Juan Enriquez thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and brain research will bring about in business, technology, politics and society.

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Listen TED Radio Hour: "Future Consequences." From data collection to gene editing to AI, what we once considered science fiction is now becoming reality. Anab Jain, Juan Enriquez, Paul Knoepfler and Sam Harris explore the future consequences of our present actions.

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