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We May Be the Last Generation of Humans... · Sky Signal

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  When you've all know, A Harare published his first book,
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  Sapiens, in 2014, about the history of the human species.
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  It became a global bestseller and turned the little known
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  Israeli history professor into one of the most popular writers
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  and thinkers on the planet. But when we met with Harare in
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  Tel Aviv this summer, it wasn't our species past that concerned
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  him. It was our future.
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  Harare believes we may be on the brink of creating not just a new
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  enhanced species of human, but an entirely new kind of being,
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  one that's far more intelligent than we are.
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  It sounds like science fiction, but you've all know a, Harare
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  says. It's actually much more
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  dangerous than that. You said we are one of the last
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  generations of Homo sapiens. Within a century or two, Earth
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  will be dominated by entities that are more different from us
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  than we are different from chimpanzees.
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  Yeah. What the hell does that mean?
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  That freaked me out. You know, we'll soon have the
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  power to re engineer our bodies and brains, whether it is with
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  genetic engineering or by directly connecting brains to
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  computers or by creating completely non organic entities.
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  Artificial intelligence, which is not based at all on the
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  organic body and the organic brain.
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  And these technologies are developing at breakneck speed.
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  If that is true, then it creates a whole other species.
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  This is something which is way beyond just another species.
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  Today, scientists are doing something that not long ago was
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  unthinkable. They can edit the genetic code
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  of living beings. The tool is called CRISPR.
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  It works like a pair of molecular scissors.
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  It can cut DNA at a precise location, remove specific genes
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  or insert entirely new ones. The technology is less than 10
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  years old, yet it has already changed medicine and
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  agriculture. Crops have been made resistant
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  to disease. Mosquitoes altered so they can
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  no longer spread malaria. Human embryos edited to remove
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  inherited disorders In 2019, Chinese researchers injected 25
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  human stem cells capable of forming any cell type, including
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  placenta, into 132 macaque embryos.
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  It seems today scientists are more concerned with whether or
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  not they can do something, and seldom bothered by whether or
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  not they should. Don't you see the danger your
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  scientists were so preoccupied with?
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  Whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think of this.
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  Short and now the frontier is merging biology and technology.
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  Researchers are developing neural implants that can connect
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  the human brain to computers. Robotic limbs controlled
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  directly by thought, artificial organs, synthetic eyes that can
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  see beyond the range of normal vision.
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  Artificial intelligence is being trained to read brain signals,
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  translate them into action, even into speech.
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  The line between human and machine begins to blur.
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  For some, the goal is to repair and restore, but for others it's
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  to enhance, to create a human that is stronger, faster, more
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  intelligent and perhaps more controllable.
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  Scientists predict this will lead to a new kind of human
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  altogether, our own descendants genetically altered and
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  mechanically enhanced. If we can do this now, with
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  tools that didn't exist a decade ago, what might have been
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  possible for a civilization thousands of years ahead of us?
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  Ancient Sumerian tablets describe the gods mixing their
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  essence with the clay of the earth to create humans.
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  Egyptian temples show beings that are part man, part animal.
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  Indian texts describe deities with multiple arms, animal
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  heads, or the ability to change form at will.
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  Was this just symbolic or records of beings who had
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  already crossed the line? In the Bible, the cherubim stood
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  watch over Eden's entrance. In Mesopotamia, Lamassu guarded
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  the palaces of kings. Perhaps these weren't mere
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  symbols carved in stone, but depictions of actual
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  bioengineered Sentinels, intelligent, loyal, and built to
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  deter any threat. But where did they go?
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  Were they wiped out and the cataclysms remembered as the
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  Flood, haunted to extinction by the very gods who made them?
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  Or were they taken back to wherever those gods came from,
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  leaving only fragments behind? Deep beneath the sands of
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  Sakara, Egypt lies the Serapeum, an underground catacomb carved
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  across centuries, rediscovered in 1850 by Auguste Mariette.
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  When he uncovered it, he found several massive granite
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  sarcophagi, each weighed between 40 and 62 tons, carved from hard
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  stone like diorite and slid into place.
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  All empty. No mummies inside, just enormous
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  sealed boxes buried in the dark. In the modern age, we found
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  traces that don't fit comfortably into the story we
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  tell ourselves. Elongated skulls scattered from
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  South America to the Caucasus. Bones with proportions that defy
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  human anatomy. And if you go further, much
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  further, could some of the fossils we call dinosaurs
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  actually be the remains of ancient hybrids, skeletons
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  pieced together not from nature's slow evolution, but
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  from deliberate design? The evidence is scattered, the
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  connection's elusive, but the pattern is there, in stone, in
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  bone, and in myth. If the hybrid guardians of the
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  ancient world were erased, it wasn't by accident, and it may
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  not be forever. Some doors are locked for a
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  reason. What happens when we open them
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  again? TuneIn, next time to the
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  Anunnaki connection. Good night.