Double helix Hubris: Against Designer Genes

Nonfiction. Science. Biology. Prophetically anticipated by Aldous Huxley in his dysutopian 1932 novel Brave New World, genetic “engineering” is, along with nuclear power, the most radical technology ever devised. While cybernetics garners the lion’s share of attention as the sexy techne of the age, it is bioengineering that is more likely to produce the most shocking changes to sentient life.