God Biotech. Consumer biotech is barely starting to sink in. Bringing capitalized biology into the hands of billions in the form of weight loss pills, genetic tests, and soon, lab-grown designer babies. You and I can't even conceive of being biotech creators. The moral duty of transcending our biology that Julian Huxley once described. Not to divide us but to expand biology across the universe (viriditas!) and understand ourselves better. To create entirely new species with which we can share different worlds. Most people demonize the idea of becoming Gods as they believe no human is prepared for this huge responsibility, and those most likely to become one today, would increase suffering rather than decrease it. Perhaps we can differentiate biotech kings from benevolent biotech Gods. I'm very ignorant, dreamy, and naïve about all of this, but I simply suggest we reconsider (magnanimous) God Biotech as an ideal, instead of getting stuck on consumer biotech. The cliché is true and bittersweet: we ARE constrained by our imagination... and our economic system. We could truly build Tolkien- or Harry Potter-esque worlds if we wanted to, with all those big monuments, weird creatures, adventures, and stories. OUR WORLD IS NOT NEARLY AS BEAUTIFUL AS IT COULD BE BUT WE CAN'T IMAGINE ANY BETTER. I literally cry when I think of that... I can't even imagine what it must be like for many of you who have been dreaming about these worlds since you were teenagers. You've been working in adjacent missions but the dream hasn't come to life. Your inner child wanted dinosaurs and you could only give them antibodies. Life-saving, real, but not precisely wonderful, at least not what you expected. Who's Neo, anyway?