Luke and Jarod start by talking about the ways that companies selling DNA data could impact society and quickly veer off. They discuss how quickly technology has advanced, how it has affected our societies and where things might go from here. Jarod also quotes Shakespeare.
Links
23andMe sold the rights to a drug it developed from its genetic database - The VergeHow Drug Companies Are Using Your DNA To Make New Medicine - WSJThe myth of Pandora’s box - Iseult Gillespie - YouTubeNote from Jarod: In this version of the myth “Hope” is left in the box after all of the evils burst out. I was surprised by this since I had learned it as foreboding. After doing some research it seems like this is the subject of much debate, and it has been since ancient times. Both translations of the story work. In the story where it is “Hope” Pandora lets it out which helps mankind. In the foreboding version she keeps it trapped inside which keeps mankind from experience that, which is considered the worst evil. In this podcast I obviously use the foreboding version and I feel that works best with the analogy I make.
[Oppenheimer quotes: the story behind 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' | WIRED UK](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/manhattan-project-robert-oppenheimer#:~:text=The story of Oppenheimer's infamous quote,-The line%2C from&text=As he witnessed the first,%2C the destroyer of worlds”.)[Act III Scene 4 Act III Scene 4 Macbeth: AS & A2 (yorknotes.com)](https://www.yorknotes.com/alevel/english-literature/macbeth-alevel/study/plot-action/01150104_act-iii-scene-4#:~:text=Key quotation%3A I am in,on than to turn back.)Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari (ynharari.com)Thomas Edison Predicts the 20th Century // Kindles and Bumblebee Helicopters // Cosmopolitan (1911) - YouTubeThe Great Bifurcation – Stratechery by Ben ThompsonEdison Financed the Electric Chair (businessinsider.com)Tesla vs. Edison — and what the never-ending battle says about us - VoxJarod Note: It is important that though I said a lot of bad things about Edison, he was not a devil or evil. There is a lot of hype making Tesla out to be an angel who just wanted to make the world better and Edison was just a businessman. Like most times, reality is not the same as the story and both men were more complicated and nuanced than myth makes them out to be.
View all episodes
