Tomorrowland (33 page)

DIY Drones,
243

DMT,
161

DNA testing,
255
–
56

Dobelle, William,
xiv
,
xvi
,
61
–
77
,
247

Dobelle Institute Artificial Vision System for the Blind,
67
–
75

Doblin, Rick,
162
–
64
,
171
–
74
,
176
–
77
,
179
–
81

Doheny Eye Institute,
76
–
77

do-it-yourself biology (DIY Bio),
229
,
243

Dolly the Sheep,
208

Donor Eligibility and Determination Labeling,
261

Donor Semen Archive,
256

Donor-Sibling Registry,
256

Donor X Project,
256

Donor Y Project,
256

The Doors of Perception
(Huxley),
169

dopamine,
42

Dow, Albert,
8
–
9
,
20

Down syndrome,
57

Draper, John,
235

dreamlets,
41
,
43

Drug Enforcement Agency,
195

drugs

out-of-body experiences produced by,
36
–
37

psychedelic,
155
–
82

steroids,
183
–
200

war on drugs and,
161
,
169
–
70
,
173
,
183
–
84
,
188
–
89
,
193
–
95

Dullnig, Michael,
196

DuPont,
232

Dyson, Freeman,
263

Earth systems research facility,
89

EBR-I nuclear reactor,
109
,
117
–
118

ecosystems

ecological niches in,
54

lack of knowledge about,
91
–
95

rebuilding the Everglades,
81
–
95

terraforming,
81
–
95

Ecstasy.
See
MDMA

Ehrlich, Paul,
204

Einstein, Albert,
109

Eisenhower, Dwight,
109

Eldredge, Niles,
54

Eleusinian Mysteries,
167

empathodelics,
160

end-of-life care,
157
–
67
,
170
–
71
,
174
–
76
,
178
–
82

LSD in,
178
–
79
,
181
–
82

MDMA in,
170
–
71
,
174
–
76
,
178
–
79
,
180
–
82

psilocybin in,
160

research on,
161
–
62

endorphins,
42

Energy from Thorium Foundation,
120

Engerman, Stanley,
51
–
52

Enríquez, Juan,
58

epigenetics,
55

epilepsy,
43
–
44

ethics

distributed justice in,
211

genetic engineering and,
232
–
33

of space exploration,
143
–
45

of sperm banking,
251

stem cells and,
206
–
18

Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,
260

“The Ethics of Exploration” (Consolmagno),
144

eugenics,
58
–
59

Evans, Nick,
189
–
90

Everglades,
81
–
95

alligators in,
91
–
92

Army Corps of Engineers taming of,
85
–
86

cattails and blue-green algae in,
90
–
91

cost of restoring,
85

drought and,
83
–
84
,
89
–
90

Floridan aquifer and,
88

Kissimmee River in,
85
–
87

lack of knowledge about,
87
–
90

Lake Okeechobee in,
88
–
90

loss of species in,
84
,
87

pollution in,
84
,
89

sugarcane farming in,
90
–
92

water impoundments in,
88
–
90

evolution

acceleration of,
49
–
59

economic development and,
51
–
53

gene-culture dynamics and,
55
–
57

geological shifts and,
53
–
54

inefficiency of,
53
–
54

metabiological,
55

of mosquito drug resistance,
134

of mosquitos and malaria,
134
–
35

of new species,
59

punctuated equilibrium in,
49
,
54
,
56

techno-physio,
54
–
57

existential anxiety,
175

exoskeletons, bionic,
20

extinction,
83

extreme states,
xiv
–
xv
,
33
–
48

after-effects of,
42
–
43

biological basis of,
40
–
43
,
45
–
48

brain changes after,
43
–
45

brain changes during,
45
–
48

concentration in,
46
–
47

euphoria in,
41
–
42

in fighter pilots,
40
–
42

near-death experiences,
37
–
45

psychedelic drugs and,
155
–
82

REM sleep and,
44
–
45

reproducibility of,
47
–
48

in skydiving,
35
–
36

transformative nature of,
42
–
48

triggered by drugs,
38
–
39

triggered by fear,
39

Facebook,
3

Fairfax Cryobank,
246
–
47

Faisal, Turki bin,
255

Farmer in the Sky
(Heinlein),
87

fascinomas,
38

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
236
–
37
,
244

Fermi, Enrico,
109

fertility clinics,
247
–
63

Catholic Church on,
259
–
60

economics of,
250
–
51

stem cells and,
208
–
10
,
211

Feynman, Richard,
30

Fisher, Lucy,
213
–
14

Floridan aquifer,
88

Floud, Roderick,
54

Flow Genome Project,
145

flying cars,
xii
,
97
–
105

Fogel, Robert,
51
–
52
,
54
–
59

Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
67

on psychedelic research,
174

on sperm banking,
251
,
261
–
62

on steroids,
195

Foundation Fighting Blindness,
74

Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution,
232

Fraser, Claire,
245

Frazer, James,
258

free radicals,
191

Freud, Sigmund,
175

Fuentes, Carlos,
23

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant,
122
–
23

Gates, Bill,
121

gene-culture dynamics,
55
–
57

GeneGenie,
27
,
222

General Electric,
113
,
221

genetic code,
xv
.
See also
sperm banks

aging and,
191

in binary code,
226
–
27

evolution and,
55
,
57
,
58
–
59

Human Genome Project and,
57
,
228

interaction of culture with,
56
–
57

largest collections of,
249

printing,
231

stem cells in repair of,
199

synthetic biology manipulation of,
230
–
32

genetic engineering,
226
–
30

barriers to entry in,
229
–
30

BioBricks in,
234
–
35

of bioweapons,
219
–
46

cost of,
228
,
229
,
243
–
45

crowdsourcing in,
221
–
23

dangers of,
227
,
232
–
33

environmental dangers of,
133
–
34
,
138
–
39

gene sequencers in,
228
–
29

genetic markers in,
136
–
37

improved technology for,
226
–
27
,
228
–
29

jumping genes in,
136
–
37
,
138
–
40

open-sourcing,
243
–
45

synthetic biology and,
230
–
32

viruses in,
221
–
23
,
233

genetic markers,
136
–
37

Genetics and IVF Institute,
257

Genome Institute,
212

genomic sequencing,
57

G-LOC,
40
–
42

Goldman, Robert,
187

Goldstein, Larry,
210
–
11

Goodman, Marc,
219
–
46
,
224

Google,
28

Gould, Stephen Jay,
49
,
54

gradualism,
49

Graham, Bob,
237

Granger, Richard,
58

Grant, Cary,
169

Green, Robert,
245

Greyson, Bruce,
39

Greyson Scale,
39

Griffiths, Roland,
152

Grof, Stanislav,
172
,
180

Guardian
(newspaper),
236
–
37

“Gym and Tonic: A Profile of 100 Steroid Users” (Evans),
190

gyrocopters,
102

gyroplanes,
102
,
104

Haldane, J.B.S.,
87

Halothane,
39

Hansen, James,
119

Harman, Denham,
191

Harris, Bernard,
54

Hartrick, Michael,
8
–
9

Hatch, Orrin,
214

Hawking, Stephen,
135

Hayabusa (space probe),
146
–
47

Hayes, Ollie,
224

headaches, cluster,
162
,
164

healing, spontaneous,
164
–
65

health

body mass changes and,
55
–
56

longevity and evolution and,
52
–
56

mosquito-borne illnesses and,
131
–
40

sperm banks and,
252
–
57

health care

anti-aging medicine,
183
–
200

genetically targeted,
224
–
25
,
240
–
41

psychedelic drugs in,
155
–
82

rights of embryos/fetuses in,
208
–
10

stem cells in,
201
–
18

health care costs,
19
–
20

coal burning and,
112

for visual prosthesis,
70

hedonic principle,
33

Heinlein, Robert A.,
87
,
148

helium-3,
151

Hermes gene,
137
,
138

Herr, Hugh,
7
–
10
,
12
–
15
,
16
–
20

Herwitt, Allison,
210

Hessel, Andrew,
57
,
59
,
219
–
246

Hinman, Frank, Jr.,
249
–
50

hippocampus, artificial,
26

HIV, sperm donation and,
261

Hoffa, Jimmy,
248

Hofmann, Albert,
168

Hoglund, Tom,
74

Homo evolutus,
58
–
59

Homo sapiens,
49
,
59

Hong, Sok Chul,
54

Hood, Leroy,
216

hormones.
See
steroids

Howell, David,
180
–
82

Howell, Mara,
157
–
61
,
164
–
67
,
170
–
71
,
174
–
76
,
178
–
79
,
180
–
82

Howell, Marilyn,
157
,
159
–
61
,
164
–
65
,
170
–
71
,
178
–
79
,
180
–
82

human condition,
29