Bio-revolution & Futurology

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Vladimir Kishinets. Bio-revolution & Futurology

Catch the biorevolution train, or why futurology is needed

1. Biotechnologies and life. GMO people? Yes

2. Revolution of revolutions

3. Time of futurology

Bio-revolution is coming

Preface

1. ACTUAL IMMORTALITY

Predictions

Biomedicine

Special property

Highest Value, Global Ideology

To live to immortality

New caution

Super-caution in ordinary life

Dangerous work

Collapse?

Counteraction

Smena-calypse

Operation “Transition”

New world, new problems

Conclusion

2. WHAT NEXT

Bio-plasty…

…and the “basic” instinct

Without human passions

Perfectly identical

Postvital and the end of the human

Meaning of life

Deism and reason

Mortal immortals

Invulnerable Megas

Our future is in silence of the heavens

Immortality and the universe

Instead of a conclusion: Transition is a triumph of humanism

3. APPENDIX

Wealth and immortality

Certain issues

Отрывок из книги

This small collection begins with a translation of the article “Catch the biorevolution train…», published in November 2019 in “Invest Foresight” magazine, which can be considered an introduction, an annotation to the second, more detailed work, “Bio-revolution is coming” (2018).

At the end of 2018, a chinese professor announced the birth of two twin girls in whose embryo he “disabled” the CCR5 gene. He explained this as a desire to make children immune to their father’s HIV infection.

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It is difficult, for example, even to list the changes in people’s lives as a result of overcoming aging: from the return to work of the mass of rejuvenated pensioners and the acceleration of population growth, to changes in the attitude of future super-long-livers to work, to marriage and family relations, to life and death, to violence, wars, to physical risk, art, entertainment, etc.

No less revolutionary will be the consequences of other areas of biomedicine application.

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