Episode #28: Engineering Humanity for the Stars: A Geneticist’s 500-Year Plan to Save Our Species

In this episode, we’re venturing far beyond Earth with geneticist and computational biologist, Christopher E. Mason, author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds. In his ambitious and fascinating book, Dr. Mason argues that humanity has a moral obligation to safeguard life by expanding into space, and he lays out a 500-year roadmap to make it possible. From genetic engineering to deep-space missions, his vision challenges us to rethink what it means to be human, and how far our creativity and science can take us.

Learn more about Dr. Mason's work on his website and follow him on LinkedIn.