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- The posthumous writings of Stephen Hawking warn of ‘superhumans’ threatening the end of humanity.
- The world-famous physicist argued that gene-editing technologies could lead to genetic augmentation.
- Hawking warned that this genetic augmentation could create a race of ‘superhumans’ — causing natural humans to die out or become unimportant.
It’s been several months since the late Stephen Hawking passed away, but posthumous writings by the groundbreaking scientist show the great man still had much more to tell us.
Just days after Hawking’s final academic paper was published online, the world-famous physicist is back in the spotlight for a different reason: a stark, controversial prediction of a future that threatens the end of the human race as we know it.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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