The perhaps not-so-hidden agenda of this book is to help us better understand the amazing story of how we got here and to encourage us to use that knowledge wisely.
Yeah... Good luck with that. Knowledge increases, but wisdom does not.
I remain convinced that the world will be destroyed by a grad student doing something remarkably mundane like trying to genetically manipulate a chicken to have rosemary flavor, or doing something remarkably stupid like trying to create a new letter pair in DNA.
But maybe the next species to evolve after us will discover this and be wise enough to heed the warnings.
And people say I'm not an optimist.
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Brian
