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.
在比大多数人意识到的更早的时候,基因革命就将改变我们身体内部的世界,以及我们所处的外部世界。尽管我们主要在医疗保健领域考虑基因技术,这些技术将改变我们孕育孩子的方式、我们所孕育的孩子的特性,并最终将改变我们作为一个物种的进化轨迹——而我们还丝毫没有为即将到来的事情做好准备。然而,我们必须做好准备,从而充分发挥基因技术的益处,并将其潜在危害降到最低。