[Apologies to those of you who’ve just seen a virtually identical email on one or more other lists. We’ve got to stop meeting like this. . . .]
I’ll be spending an hour with George Church on Friday. Church is a molecular biologist/geneticist of nearly Einsteinian range and significance. For one metric, in his Harvard/MIT lab there are 160 scientists working under his supervision. Here’s his wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Church <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Church> and here’s a profile from a recent National Geographic: <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/innovators/2014/06/140602-george-church-innovation-biology-science-genetics-de-extinction/ <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/innovators/2014/06/140602-george-church-innovation-biology-science-genetics-de-extinction/>> Here’s about his recent book Regenesis, about the imminent revolution in biology that is going to rock our world, big time: http://www.amazon.com/Regenesis-Synthetic-Biology-Reinvent-Ourselves/dp/0465075703 <http://www.amazon.com/Regenesis-Synthetic-Biology-Reinvent-Ourselves/dp/0465075703> If I can figure out how the logistics, I’ll record the conversation & post it as a podcast. But in any event I’ll be blogging it. I know George (remind me to tell you how I met him. It has a connection to my novella Cheap Complex Devices); we’re not intimate friends but certainly we’re friendly. As it turns out he’s a fan of my books, which is how I managed to score an hour on his extremely crowded calendar. I asked if I could talk to him about some ideas I’ve been kicking around for my many-years-behind-schedule novel Creation Science. Which is to say that I expect to have a friendly chat with him, not a Chris-Farley-interviews-Paul-McCartney thing. But the guy really is a genius, and a deep thinker about DNA & human destiny. I want to make the most of my time with him this week. SO MY DEAR SILKY FRIENDS, What should I ask? Regards, jrs
