It’s not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower, is it? Whatever it is they are really good at it. While Western civilization chokes on its own gluttony, China continues to buy up American debt and lock away the world’s natural resources. But now, not content to simply laugh and make jerk-off signs as they
pass us on the geopolitical highway, they’ve also developed a
state-endorsed genetic-engineering project. Quite interesting, how technology is stepping up...
At BGI Shenzhen,
scientists have collected DNA samples from 2,000 of the world’s
smartest people and are sequencing their entire genomes in an attempt to
identify the alleles which determine human intelligence. Apparently
they’re not far from finding them, and when they do, embryo screening
will allow parents to pick their brightest zygote and potentially bump
up every generation's intelligence by five to 15 IQ points. Within a
couple of generations, competing with the Chinese on an intellectual
level will be like challenging Lena Dunham to a getting-naked-on-TV
contest.
Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist and lecturer at NYU, is
one of the 2,000 braniacs who contributed their DNA. Daily China strive to improve their Educational sector, who knows trying to be the next world power...?
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