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Aug 21 2018

Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies

Andrew Maynard

I’m thrilled that my new book Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies (Mango Publishing) is now available! From the listing: Learn how movies reveal the future of technology Fans of The Science of Interstellar, The Second Machine Age, and Physics of the Future will love...

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Dec 01 2015

Making sense of gene drives and gene editing

Andrew Maynard

Gene editing and gene drives are rapidly emerging as the disruptive technologies du jour. But what are they, what can they do, and why should you care? Just last week, research was published that took us a step closer to being able to re-engineer whole species by driving specific genes through...

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