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The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology.
Technology’s unavoidable challenge is that its makers quickly lose control over the path their inventions take once introduced to the world.
the inevitability of physical aging—what seems like a fundamental part of human life—is called into question.
In nature, viruses usually trade off lethality for transmissibility. The more transmissible a virus, the less lethal it often is.
Might it be time, however improbable, to have a moratorium on technology itself?
