Jamie Metzl Books

Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future

Genesis Code: A Thriller of the Near Future

The Depths of the Sea

Speaker Lists Featuring Jamie Metzl

Leading Geopolitics Speakers on International Relations & Policy

In a world more connected than ever through globalization and technology, these geopolitics speakers can shed light on the effects of economics, geography, demographics, and climate change on world politics. The geopolitical...

COVID-19 Global Impact: Leading Expert Speakers

COVID-19 has not only affected the world’s health, but has penetrated our economy, politics and daily lives in lasting and uncertain ways. The economists, global health specialists, academic leaders and crisis management...

Leading Speakers on Foreign Policy

Journalists, diplomats, and more, these men and women are experts on foreign policy and current events. They address international issues and can provide informed perspectives on the politics surrounding them.

Knowledgeable Leaders in Healthcare Technology & Futurism

Stem cell research, 3D printing, and genome sequencing are just some of the innovative developments that help doctors treat patients with better accuracy and improved results. These men and women are scientists, researchers,...

Science Fiction Authors

Transporting readers into a world where space travel, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life are the norm, science fiction is a genre that has been called a "literature of ideas". These authors know how...

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Jamie Metzl Speaking Topics

• From Precision to Predictive: How the Intersecting Revolutions in AI, Genetics, and Biotechnology are Transforming Healthcare, Spurring Economic Growth, and Reshaping our Lives

  Rapidly accelerating revolutions in artificial intelligence, applied genetics, and biotechnology are now ushering in a new era in how healthcare is delivered and the business models around it. While this creates previously unimaginable opportunities to prevent, treat, and cure diseases, it also has the potential to pose new challenges if not handled properly. In this highly illuminative talk, leading futurist Jamie Metzl explores how genetic and other technologies are transforming healthcare, where things are headed and what is at stake, and lays out key principles for how health industry professionals, investors, and the business community can prepare for a revolution that has far greater implications and is coming far sooner than most people recognize.

• Hacking immortality: The science and science fiction of extreme human life extension

  In this exciting talk, Jamie Metzl explores the latest technological breakthroughs in the science of human life extension and their implications on the personal and societal levels. While the quest for immortality has been the stuff of fairy tales, the new science of life extension is very real and will soon be pushing the limits of aging and unlocking human potential. Jamie, a rare combination of science expert and science fiction writer, brings the science to life and explains what people can and should be doing now to prepare for this revolutionary future that will fundamentally reorganize modern societies and have monumental implications for businesses and other organizations.

• Homo Sapiens 2.0: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Humanity

  After four billion years of evolution through the Darwinian principles of random mutation and natural selection, our species is about to take control of our evolution. The genetic revolution will allow us to eliminate genetic diseases which have plagued our ancestors for millennia, live longer healthier lives, and transform how we make babies and ultimately the nature of the babies we make. The genetics revolution will be the greatest opportunity of our era, and also the greatest challenge – and it will have massive business implications that will increasingly define organizational success and failure in the 21st century.

• Human Resource Management in a Genetic Age

  Corporations have struggled for decades to build open and inclusive workplaces comfortable to people of all races, nationalities, genders, ages, and sexual orientations. In the fast-arriving genetic age, companies will need to figure out such issues as whether to cover embryo selection and embryonic genetic engineering for employees and how to deal with genetic IQ estimates derived before birth from the sequenced genomes of potential employees. While this may seem like science fiction, the beginnings of this future are already here. Today’s debate about whether or not companies should cover egg freezing expenses for female employees is only a first step in a genome-based transformation that will alter our perception of workforce capabilities and potentials and challenge even the most forward-thinking of corporations.

• What You Need to Know About the Future

  Converging political, geopolitical, and technological revolutions are making now the greatest moment of global change at least since 1945 and possibly ever. With nationalism rising around the world, the post-war international order in rapid decline, China significantly expanding its global influence, and the AI, genetics, blockchain, and other revolutions shaking the foundations of the world we’ve known, the pressure is mounting for individuals, companies, and countries to either understand and quickly adapt to these converging super-trends or pay a massive competitive price. In this talk spanning the wide range of factors transforming our world at lightning speed, geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl paints a vivid picture of where we are heading and outlines key principles for how individuals, companies, and countries can best position themselves to ride the rising tidal wave of revolutionary change.

Jamie Metzl Speaker Videos

• 33rd birthday of the Panchen Lama of Tibet: Jamie Metzl Speech

  
  Hacking Darwin | Jamie Metzl | Talks at Google

  

  Technology futurist, Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, and World Health Organization advisor Jamie Metzl discusses his new book, "Hacking Darwin," which explores the sociological and ethical...
• Jamie Metzl discusses Singles Day and China's Economy

  

  Jamie Metzl discusses Singles Day and China's Economy with CNN's Julia Chatterley - November 12, 2018
  Homo Sapiens 2.0: The Future of Human Genetic Engineering

  

  After 3.8 billion years of evolution, our species is on the verge of taking active control of our genetics. The human genetic engineering revolution will not only transform healthcare, it will...

Jamie Metzl News

• Seven essential steps for thriving in our new world of social distance ...

  Jamie Metzl writes that while most of us have already taken big steps away from physical proximity as the core of our human intimacy, the social distancing ...

• The Metaverse Could Become an Oppressive Dystopia. It Needs a Congress | Opinion

  Facebook's recent announcement that it had changed its name to Meta in anticipation of the two-dimensional internet morphing into an immersive 3-D Metaverse has unleashed a boom in speculation about our digital future, along with investor interest. While no one can yet know exactly what the Metaverse will be, it's already clear that our personal and professional lives will increasingly be lived...

• The Future, According to Jamie Metzl

  At the highest levels of business and government, his counsel is sought on matters of science, technology, medicine, ethics, politics and history. Jamie Metzl has advised Walmart, a slew of biotech startups, and the World Health Organization. He served on the White House National Security Council and as an executive of the Asia Society. He led public discussion about the origins of the COVID-19...