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Our guardian has not been seen since last night, the 12th of February. It has been exactly 5 hours, 23 minutes and 45 seconds since our hero was last seen. Has he left us forever? His latest task was to have peace talks with Australia and South Africa, who were fighting over the rights to host the Superhero Congress of 2045. This talk was obviously successful. Afterwards the guardian was supposed to show up in Germany to speak about the recently escaped convict from the world prison. He never sh...

Gene modification and overpopulation have instigated a new discriminatory bias Since gene modification was introduced to the public, people have been increasingly applying for body enhancements and ‘skin discolouring’. From the beginning sociologists predicted an increase in the division between social classes, however it has been concluded that the impact is much more detrimental than first thought. This ‘message from the future’ is written by a student of VU Amsterdam, as an assignme...

A Better World I am writing to you from the year 2041. You are now following the A Broader Mind course at the VU. You are learning about and discussing genetic modification and biohacking. Your opinions on the topic are very clear: only use genetic modification to prevent and cure diseases. It totally makes sense that you think like that. Not much is known about the consequences of the techniques available and its always better to be safe than sorry.  This ‘message from the future’ is wri...

Humans are losing their spine because of years of genetic modification. We need to stop trying to be perfect humans, says visionary Timo Roskam.