The End of Life as We Know It

Ominous News from the Frontiers of Science

By: Michael Guillen PhD

Narrated by: Michael Guillen PhD

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

In nearly all aspects of life, humans are crossing lines of no return.

Modern science is leading us into vast uncharted territory - far beyond the invention of nuclear weapons or taking us to the moon. Today, in labs all over the world, scientists are performing experiments that threaten to fundamentally alter the practical character and ethical color of our everyday lives.

In The End of Life as We Know It, best-selling author Michael Guillen takes a penetrating look at how the scientific community is pushing the boundaries of morality, including:

• Scientists who detached the head of a Russian man from his crippled, diseased body and stitched it onto a healthy new donated body
• Fertility experiments aimed at allowing designer babies to be conceived with the DNA from three or more biological parents
• The unprecedented politicization of science - for example, in the global discussion about climate change that is pitting "deniers" against "alarmists" and inspiring Draconian legislation, censorship, and legal prosecutions
• The integration of artificial Intelligence into communications and the economy

The End of Life as We Know It takes us into laboratories and boardrooms where these troubling advances are taking place and asks the question no scientists seem to be asking: What does this mean for the future of humanity?

©2018 Michael Guillen, PhD (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Good until the end, where it feels like a sermon

I liked this book until the end, where the author discusses his views on religion and it’s superiority to secularism. While he is certainly entitled to his opinion it felt like an overt attempt to challenge the evidence-minded audience likely to be drawn to this book.
The author seems to think secularists have subscribed to an alternate faith called scientism, but that accusation misunderstands the entire point. Science doesn’t require faith, it instead seeks to understand the cosmos through experimentation and evidence. Religion claims to already understand the cosmos but requires, and reveres, without evidence.

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I HAVE BARELY BEGUN TO LISTEN TO THIS AUDIOBOOK AND SCARY- YES. BUT I HAD TO LEAVE A REVIEW ALREADY....... I AM SO VERY THANKFUL THAT I HAVEN’T HAD A TV IN YEARS: ABSOLUTELY BY CHOICE. I DON’T DO FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM OR ANY OTHER APP SUCH AS THE LIKES OF THOSE. WHEN I LEAVE MY HOUSE, MY IPHONE XR STAYS IN THE HOUSE- I NEVER TAKE IT WITH ME, NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT- JUST NEVER BROUGHT IT WITH ME. GUESS THAT TAKES CARE OF GPS AND MY MOVEMENTS AND WHEREABOUTS, HUH?
IF MY PHONE REALLY WANTS TO LISTEN TO ME: IT HEARS A LOT OF ME TALKING TO MY LORD JESUS CHRIST. AMEN.

Changes we all should be aware of…

We’ll written and narrated. An excellent message from the future ,which is already
At our doorstep.

The title is an inevitability.

A good exposé of how, through scientific and technologic advancement, man is outdoing himself, and, perhaps, undoing himself.

Good information to get you thinking

This way interesting reading and certainly got me thinking, But the ending is way too preachy, too opinionated.

A must read for us all

Absolutely loved the content but the reader was choppy. Will most definitely listen to again.

Informative

I enjoyed the book, made me aware of things I never would have thought about. We as a species will be our own destruction .

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What an eye (ear) opening experience. Dr Guillen covers the gammit of thought and impact of technology on mankind.

Worth a listen even if it becomes illogical

Great book, wonderful presentation.

However the end provides a pro-religious argument without base and the claim that science it's somehow an illogical belief. "the belief that what is objective is what exists." and that's kind of silly.

by that same argument we could say that invisible pirates control physics of the world and that would be a valid view of how things work. we know better.

but all in all a great book.

Great eyeopener and a wakeup call for humanity

i think the content is well researched and informative. Hope it serves the purpose in making the audiance question what it means to allow future to stop making moral an ethical sense.