Sapiens is written by Yuval Noah Harari, who puts forward so many concerns about homo sapiens future after we have broken the laws of “natural selection.” The goal of this paper is to do the close reading of the content’s last part and give some opinions on author’s arguments. In the last part “The End of Homo Sapiens”, Harari points out that we have broken the laws of natural selection and entered the new realm of intelligent design, worrying about what the future will be like for homo sapiens. Will it be an end for our humans? Will the life be ruled by intelligent design? Will we still be ourselves? As Harari introduced, there are three ways of intelligent design: biological engineering, cyborg engineering or the engineering of in-organic
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Author detailed introduces the technologies we use in genetic engineering. All these technologies (genetic engineering) have remarkable wonders, but they also bring up ethical, political and ideological issues. For example, genetic engineering brings challenges to individual genetic privacy. Once the individual genetic code (DNA) is cracked and put on record, those who have a genetic defect are likely to get discrimination from others. Also, employers may favor a candidate whose DNA looks better and does not have a defect on it. This affects the normal lives of people and causes a lot of problems to the stability and development of the …show more content…
Now with this technology, we are not treating the symptoms of diseases, but finding the true cause of the diseases. According to new technologies, medical researchers are able to design new treatment mechanisms and avoid environmental conditions that can cause the disease. For example, genetic diagnosis of genetic engineering is an important application. It refers to using genetic engineering to replace the lesion genes with normal genes to achieve the purpose of curing some hereditary diseases. Also, the genetic engineering in drug research brings unique social value and economic benefits. It can not only solve the difficulty of the source, but also create drugs that are more effective and have fewer side effects. What’s more, genetic engineering enables scientists to manufacture artificial organs on animals, which could then be implanted in
Author detailed introduces the technologies we use in genetic engineering. All these technologies (genetic engineering) have remarkable wonders, but they also bring up ethical, political and ideological issues. For example, genetic engineering brings challenges to individual genetic privacy. Once the individual genetic code (DNA) is cracked and put on record, those who have a genetic defect are likely to get discrimination from others. Also, employers may favor a candidate whose DNA looks better and does not have a defect on it. This affects the normal lives of people and causes a lot of problems to the stability and development of the …show more content…
Now with this technology, we are not treating the symptoms of diseases, but finding the true cause of the diseases. According to new technologies, medical researchers are able to design new treatment mechanisms and avoid environmental conditions that can cause the disease. For example, genetic diagnosis of genetic engineering is an important application. It refers to using genetic engineering to replace the lesion genes with normal genes to achieve the purpose of curing some hereditary diseases. Also, the genetic engineering in drug research brings unique social value and economic benefits. It can not only solve the difficulty of the source, but also create drugs that are more effective and have fewer side effects. What’s more, genetic engineering enables scientists to manufacture artificial organs on animals, which could then be implanted in