De-Extinction

Add to the list of undreamed possibilities: bringing species back from the dead, or de-extinction. Stewart Brand talks about the possibilities in his Ted Talk. This is only one angle in the larger promise that Biotechnology will enable the reversal and/or repair of some of the more unfortunate impacts of the Anthropocene, along with proprietary crops to sequester CO2, proprietary algae to metabolize organic waste into more carbon-neutral fuels, etc. Hunted Species X into extinction? Oops -- our bad. Here -- we brought back Species X. Let's have a do-over, okay? (Link)

Stewart Brand TED Talk on De-Extinction