ANH Founder’s Appeal: Human 2.0 wake-up call from nature

We live at a time in which technology and biology are becoming ever less separate or discrete entities. Huge investment in emerging technologies such as gene editing, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, quantum computing and 3D printing will undoubtedly help to deliver efficient solutions to some of the world’s many problems.

But when such technological development is controlled by those who see it as a necessity to overcome the limitations of the human condition – there is a real danger that its risks could greatly outweigh the benefits in specific applications. In fact, integration of synthetic DNA into a human being renders a ‘person’ non-human. It is how Human 2.0 or the transhuman is created and this development is already way past the drawing board stage.