End Times

Bioengineering the End Times

New technologies like gene editing could vastly improve human life. They also just might end it.

Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Published in
6 min readAug 19, 2019

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Asteroids, supervolcanoes, nuclear war, climate change, engineered viruses, artificial intelligence, and even aliens — the end may be closer than you think. For the next two weeks, OneZero will be featuring essays

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Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Writer for

Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.