What if biohackers injected themselves with mRNA?
Members of the Witnesses of Bioinformatic Freedom, a biohacking-rights group, demand the right to alter their own biology. An imagined scenario from 2029
Editor’s note: This year What If?, our annual collection of scenarios, considers the future of health. Each of these stories is fiction, but grounded in historical fact, current speculation and real science. They do not present a unified narrative but are set in different possible futures
This article appeared in the The World Ahead section of the print edition under the headline “Freedom to tinker”
The World Ahead July 3rd 2021
- What if biohackers injected themselves with mRNA?
- What if America tackled its opioid crisis?
- What if a deadly heatwave hit India?
- What if everyone’s nutrition was personalised?
- What if smartphones became personal health assistants?
- What if marmosets lived on the Moon?
- What if dementia was preventable and treatable?
- What if an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine?
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