Business Book Club Meetup #12 - Hacking Darwin

Hi everyone, Business Book Club Cologne Meetup #12 is on:

• THURSDAY, 24.10, 19:00 @ Motel One Cologne-Neumarkt - Cäcilienstraße 32, 50667 Köln - Down in the Lobby

• OUR NEXT BOOK: Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

In many ways, Jamie Metzl has been preparing Hacking Darwin for the last 20 years and his diligence shines through. Jamie is a gifted writer and his explanation of genetics are crisp, accurate, and wonderfully engaging. If you can only read one book on the future of our species, this is it." - Sanjay Gupta MD, bestseller author, neurosurgeon, and Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent (CNN)

"Jamie Metzl possesses a nearly superhuman ability to take in vast amounts of research and synthesize it into disruptive, beautifully-wrought prose. To borrow a term from the book, Hacking Darwin is an intellectual masterbatortium-at once stimulating
and consummately satisfying.
" - Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and New York Times bestselling author of Blue Zones Solution and Blue Zones of Happiness

"Humans taking control of human evolution is happening now and it could be the most significant thing we have done since we learned how to make and use fire. When history looks back on this period, it will not focus on the shiny objects that grab the attention of media today, but rather on the tech breakthroughs that Metzl explains in such clear language. Hacking Darwin is essential reading if you want to understand what will be seen as the most important thing happening in this epoch." - Richard A. Clarke, bestselling author of Warnings and former White House National Security official

We look forward to your comments and many RSVP: YESSS!

Eugen & Tito

P.S.: Suggestions for the upcoming books are always welcome! :)

****************************************** Our meetup structure:
• Introduction: everybody tells ~3 sentences about him/herself
• Brief author bio (~5 min)
• Impression: everybody talks ~2 min (own experiences/what did we like most/least?)
• Discussion: lessons learned from the book
• Total time: ~2hrs.

What do you need to participate?
Interest in the topic of the book to be discussed.
You don’t have to have read the book completely.

How can you prepare for the meetup? (optional)
Think about the following questions:

1. Which ideas in the book were most valuable for you?
2. Any lessons learned which you can apply immediately?
3. Which questions were not answered in the book? What’s next?

Sprache: Das Meetup wird entweder auf Deutsch oder auf Englisch gehalten. Am Anfang entscheiden wir gemeinsam welche Sprache gesprochen wird.

Language: As soon as there is at least one person who can't speak German, the meetup language will be English. At the beginning of the meetup we decide together which language will be spoken.

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