# We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Talks Live
- Speaker: Juan Enriquez
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment, Psychology and the brain, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_we_can_reprogram_life_how_to_do_it_wisely)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

For four billion years, what lived and died on Earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and changed everything — hybridizing plants, breeding animals, altering the environment and even purposefully evolving ourselves. Juan Enriquez provides five guidelines for a future where this ability to program life rapidly accelerates. "This is the single most exciting adventure human beings have been on," Enriquez says. "This is the single greatest superpower humans have ever had."

## Lectures

1. [We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/juan_enriquez_we_can_reprogram_life_how_to_do_it_wisely/09eda92fe5d1), 15 min (TED's player)