No hunger. No pollution. No disease. Wired’s Amy Maxmen welcomes you to the age of copy and paste DNA editing and the end of life as we know it. “Genome editing started with just a few big labs putting in lots of effort, trying something 1,000 times for one or two successes. Now it’s something that someone with a BS and a couple thousand dollars’ worth of equipment can do. What was impractical is now almost everyday. That’s a big deal.”

+ “Steven Pete can put his hand on a hot stove or step on a piece of glass and not feel a thing.” And drug companies see gold when they look at Steven Pete and other people with rare genetic mutations. From Bloomberg: These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could Be Worth Billions. (If Pfizer knew how many browser tabs I could open at once, they’d be banging down my door…)