“The big formula of this revolution is that if you have more data, better algorithms, and more computing power, you can decipher patterns in vast data pools far beyond what our unaided brains can do.”
By Next Big Idea Club, Fast Company
Jamie Metzl is a leading technology and healthcare futurist and the founder and chair of OneShared.World. He is the author of Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity and four other books and was a member of the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing. Metzl previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee and with the United Nations in Cambodia. His work has been featured by most major media organizations, including 60 Minutes, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, the Times of London, Le Monde, and Paris Match. Academically, he is a graduate of Brown, Harvard, and Oxford.
Below, Metzl shares five key insights from his new book, Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World. Listen to the audio version—read by Metzl himself—in the Next Big Idea App.
