Far sooner than most people realise, the genetics revolution will transform the world within and around us. Although we think about genetic technologies primarily in the context of healthcare, these tools are set to change the way we make babies, the nature of the babies we make and, ultimately, our evolutionary trajectory as a species — and we are not remotely ready for what’s coming. Yet we must be, to optimise the benefits and minimise the potential harms of genetic technologies.
在比大多數人意識到的更早的時候,基因革命就將改變我們身體內部的世界,以及我們所處的外部世界。儘管我們主要在醫療保健領域考慮基因技術,這些技術將改變我們孕育孩子的方式、我們所孕育的孩子的特性,並最終將改變我們作爲一個物種的演化軌跡——而我們還絲毫沒有爲即將到來的事情做好準備。然而,我們必須做好準備,從而充分發揮基因技術的益處,並將其潛在危害降到最低。