My guest today is Sophia Roosth, a Harvard professor that Covel first heard quoted on DNA privacy from Davos. Roosth’s research focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first century life sciences. Her first book, based on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, examines how the life sciences are changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works. In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge.
The topic is science.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Davos event
- What becomes of privacy in a moment of internet surveillance
- Having more information out there as a way to control privacy
- Biological privacy, and whether our DNA is going down a path where it’s a lot more public
- Discrimination based on genome
- Genetic McCarthyism
- Somatic transfer and cloning
- The story of Chance the bull
- The idea of de-extinction
- The ethics of cloning
- Molecular gastronomy and world hunger
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