Stephanie and Michael discuss CRISPR, the gene editor, and what it would mean to 'cure' deafness. 

Michael has not seen Gattaca, have you? It's available via Amazon Prime Video right now. Michael also hasn't seen Blade Runner, which is the movie he was trying to recall

Elon Musk's Neuralink conference can be seen/heard here. I suspect we'll be talking about this soon.

And finally, a quote from the book Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert:

Natural selection has been described as an environment selectively screening for those who will have progeny. Where humans are concerned, though, this is an extremely limiting viewpoint. Reproduction by sex tends toward experiment and innovation. It raises many questions, including the ancient one about whether environment is a selective agent after the variation occurs, or whether environment plays a pre-selective role in determining the variations which it screens. Dune did not realty answer those questions: it merely raised new questions which Leto and the Sisterhood may attempt to answer over the next five hundred generations. -The Dune Catastrophe, After Harq al-Ada  

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