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Visions of the Future

Episode 2: The Biotech Revolution

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Leading theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku looks at the revolution in genetics and biotechnology, which promises unprecedented health and longevity but also raises the spectre of a Frankenstein future of genetically engineered people. Will we, as transhumanists expect, evolve into a new species? Dr Kaku warns that we may end up in a world divided by genetic apartheid. Show less

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