Unreasonably fearful stance. A question like "When I am cybernetically enhanced, how will I know where my self begins and ends?" rings contrived and empty to me. A statement like "In the coming age, there will be winners and losers" is so painfully obvious that it should not be uttered by anyone ever. The scruples about getting tested for genetic predispositions to disease, on the grounds that "What if it shows something bad? I'd have to make some adjustments, and talk to my family about it (the horror!)" border on the ludicrous. It's hard to discern how much of this Michio sincerely thinks/feels, as opposed to purposely dumbing the material down for the audience, but what matters is the result: a documentary with an extremely simplistic and conservative viewpoint. To compound the issue, Michio gets a lot of commentators with narrow, paranoid views of the occurring progress. It's not illuminating or even pleasant to listen to these people who are hopelessly behind the times.
A note to Biotech Revolution: Joel Garreau, who has written a book called "Radical Evolution", says: that "Humans will be the first species to take control of their own evolution." The problem with that statement is the lack of a sense of continuity. Bacteria have been able to directly incorporate new DNA segments into their genomes for billions of years. Modifying and improving DNA is what life DOES. Or, more precisely, DNA has always modified and improved itself. It's just that now it has created humans to streamline the process.
6/10.
A note to Biotech Revolution: Joel Garreau, who has written a book called "Radical Evolution", says: that "Humans will be the first species to take control of their own evolution." The problem with that statement is the lack of a sense of continuity. Bacteria have been able to directly incorporate new DNA segments into their genomes for billions of years. Modifying and improving DNA is what life DOES. Or, more precisely, DNA has always modified and improved itself. It's just that now it has created humans to streamline the process.
6/10.