Reviews & Interviews
The Next Big Idea podcast
SUPERCONVERGENCE: Biotechnology Is About to Transform the World. Are We Ready?
Fast Company
The Future of Humanity: Can our human values save us from extinction?
Biohackers Magazine
A futurist explains 3 essential things needed to prepare for the imminent AI and biotech revolutions
Disorder podcast
“Part 1: Will the Burgeoning Bioeconomy be a force for Order or for Disorder?”
“Part 2: Could a new global institution help Order the Disorder?”
Cal Fussman podcast
“Jamie Metzl: Seeing AI Like Electricity”
Next Big Idea Club
“How to Prepare for the Imminent AI and Biotech Revolutions, According to a Leading Futurist”
Forbes
“In Superconvergence, Jamie Metzl Unravels AI Mysteries”
The Jordan Harbinger Show podcast
“AI Solutions for Hunger, Health, & Habitat”
Wall Street Journal
“‘Superconvergence’ Review: Getting Better, Faster”
NewsNation
“Jamie Metzl discusses his new book and COVID-19 origins with Elizabeth Vargas”
Bloomberg Businessweek podcast
“Superconvergence Book”
The James Altucher Show podcast (Apple)
“Superconvergence: The Dawn of Human-Engineered Intelligence with Jamie Metzl”
Fox Business
“Metzl’s New Book Superconvergence is Out Now”
Fox News
“Pictures of children being used to power AI tools: Report”
Fox News
“Jamie Metzl On The Lifesaving Impact Of AI & Holding China Accountable For Covid-19”
Science
“A futurist probes the potential of engineered organisms and biologically inspired devices”
Corriere Della Sera
“Futurologist Metzl: ‘Bio-hacking to live longer? Diet, exercise, community matter more. And give meaning to existence’”
Kirkus (starred review)
“A clear examination of a ‘transitional moment in the story of life on Earth, a new Cambrian explosion with a new biological driver—us.’”
Praise for Superconvergence
“During the 25 years I have known Jamie Metzl, he has always been ahead of the curve. There is no one better to help us understand and prepare for the fast-approaching technological revolutions. Superconvergence is brilliant. I can’t recommend it more strongly.”
— Sanjay Gupta MD, bestseller author, neurosurgeon, and Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent (CNN)
“In Superconvergence, Jamie Metzl takes readers on a magical journey through the science of the intersecting genetics, biotech, and AI revolutions, deeply explores the implications, and challenges us to think creatively and proactively about what comes next. Very few books are absolute must-reads. This is one.”
— Siddhartha Mukherjee, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and author of The Gene: An Intimate History
“In a fine counter-blast to the pessimism of today, Jamie Metzl lays out just how spectacular the future of humanity and planet can be if we harness innovation responsibly and imaginatively to create what he calls the “spiral of progress.”
— Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works, and co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
“Our world is defined by our science and technology — whether we like it or not. The question now is not whether to use these powers, but how best to use them. In Superconvergence, Jamie Metzl takes us on a journey of the new capabilities that are radically transforming ecosystems inside us and around us, challenging each of us to get personally involved with building the future we want.”
— Beth Shapiro, University of California Santa Cruz evolutionary biologist and author of Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature
“A page-turning journey through space and time that shows us how our lives will be changed by imminent technological advances we once only dreamed of.”
— David Sinclair, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and author of Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don’t Have To
“The superconvergence of the genetics, biotechnology, and AI revolutions provides spectacular opportunities for building a better world. It also represents an almost limitless investment opportunity. We were excited to collaborate with Jamie Metzl, one of the world’s great experts on how these aspirations can best be realized, including in capital markets. Superconvergence is a master class for imagining, investing in, and building a future we’d like to inhabit.”
— Jeremy Schwartz, Global Chief Investment Officer, WisdomTree
“An important book in which the author sets out a path for the future based on his experience and expertise.”
“…a vital resource for our times”
— Forbes