The coming wave of next-generation gene therapy and its implications. I think it might not arrive in full in 20-50 years, but eventually a point will arrive whe

The coming wave of next-generation gene therapy and its implications. I think it might not arrive in full in 20-50 years, but eventually a point will arrive when we will be discussing reversion of somatic mutations and its implications for aging, and wrestling with what it means to be a "bad person" when the means of changing self and personal identity are within society's ability. It's one thing for our notions of justice and worth to point to ideas (implicit or explicit) about a particular person as an immutable quantity; it's another to not have any excuses, environmental or genetic, for changing that, even deep into development, especially when aging is slowed dramatically. Society is going to have to wrestle with some deep issues that aren't being addressed at the moment. Am I working on it? I guess I don't know how to best do it in terms of my abilities, opportunities, and impact (writing? nonfiction or fiction? research? if so how?) and also feel pushed out of the loop in some ways that I've tried.