From leading geopolitical professional and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the numerous methods genetic-engineering is shaking the primary foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death.

In the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as mankind starts retooling our own genetic code, the choices we make today would be the difference between recognizing breathtaking improvements in individual well- on the subject of Hacking Darwin: Hereditary Engineering and the continuing future of Mankind becoming and descending into a dangerous and potentially deadly hereditary arms race.

Enter the laboratories where researchers are turning technology fiction into reality. Look towards a future where our deepest beliefs, morals, religions, and politics are challenged like nothing you’ve seen prior and the very fact of what it means to be human reaches play. When we can engineer our potential children, massively prolong our lifespans, build life from scratch, and recreate the vegetable and animal world, should we?

Passionate, provocative, and highly illuminating, Hacking Darwin may be the must-listen publication about the continuing future of our species for fans of Homo Deus and The Gene.