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I’m Quinn Emmett, and this is science for people who give a shit.
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This week: How to be excited about the future, explained.
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SHINY THINGS
We can love them and know they’re not enough.
I love shiny things. LOVE.
For example, precision medicine is awesome. Or — it will be awesome. Soon. At some point. For some of us?
Wait! Don’t go.
Again I want to be crystal clear: I’m INCREDIBLY excited about the technologies and treatments that will reinvent and redefine medicine, food, power, and more.
Truly. I soak this stuff up. Oh, we can do surgery on fetuses in the womb now? We can probably cure blindness soon? We can make drugs in space? Fuck yeah, sign me up. Plug it into my veins.
There’s a reason so many movies hinge on finding the antidote to some terrible, timely poison. An antidote worth its weight in gold because everybody needs it.
But what if — hear me out — we stopped poisoning everyone in the first place?
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