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Bioengineering, Billionaires, and Magic Beans: The Future of Power, Innovation, and Human Evolution
Episode 135
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Billionaires are no longer just investing — they’re tinkering with life itself. In this episode, George Monty examines the intersection of bioengineering, high-stakes innovation, and the mythic allure of “magic beans” — the promises and perils of manipulating biology on a planetary scale.
From genetic engineering to speculative futures, this conversation unpacks how wealth, science, and imagination converge — and what it means for ethics, evolution, and society.
In this episode:
- The role of billionaires in advancing bioengineering and biotech
- Promises and dangers of genetic manipulation
- How innovation blends with myth, storytelling, and cultural aspiration
- Ethical and societal implications of controlling life itself
- Speculative visions for the future of human evolution
Transcript:Speaker 0 (0s): Hello, my friends. And welcome back to another edition of the TrueLife podcast. I've been on vacation for a little bit, but I'm bad. I was thinking about you guys. I hope everything is going well. I hope your COVID free care-free and free to do what it is you think is right. I'm going to start off with a quick joke today. I hope it makes you laugh and that makes you smile. There's a businessman and he has started a company in his garage.
He's been working hard on it for the last six months. And lo and behold, he gets a call from an investment banker in the big apple, New York city. The investment banker says, I have noticed your product and I would like to make you an offer. Can you come and meet me and my team in New York to hear that offer a gentleman says sure, a day of the, he exits off the plane.
The day of the meeting, he's there pretty early. However, he finds his flight was delayed. And now as he's exiting the airport, he's beginning to scramble. He realizes that he is supposed to meet these investment bankers in front of Carnegie hall. However, he's never been in New York city. And so he is beginning to worry. As he comes out of the airport, he sees a young woman exiting a cab and she is carrying a violin case.
So he runs up, she's dressed nice. And he says, maybe she'll know. And so he runs up to her and he says, ma'am do you play in the symphony? And she says, well, yes, I do. He says, fantastic. Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie hall? And she pauses for a minute. She looks him up and down and she says, practice, practice. I thought that was kind of funny.
I'm so fascinated by all the things that are happening in our lives today. And it has been such a, a culture shock. It has been such a cultural divide, a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, or maybe both. If man has in fact part of nature, then maybe it's both. And that's kind of a subject that I wanted to get in today. I've been revisiting this book called the master in his emissaries, and it's about left right brain lateralization.
And what goes on in between those two hemispheres, they've done plenty of research on victims that have had lesions in their left brain, in lesions, in their right-brain. And for those of you who have done some research on it, I'm sure you're aware of this. And for those of you who have yet to do some research on it, I hope to peak your interest. Let me just give you a couple examples of what happens when there's trauma on each side of the brain.
So when there's trauma on the left side of the brain, it tends to cause people to forget how to speech or ruin their speech patterns or makes it very difficult for them to communicate via their
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