New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2022. As futurist Amy Webb and synthetic biologist Andrew Hessel show in this book, within the next decade, we will need to make important decisions: whether to program novel viruses to fight diseases, what genetic privacy will look like, who will "own" living organisms, how companies should earn revenue from engineered cells, and how to contain a synthetic organism in a lab. This book provides the background for us to understand and grapple with these issues, and think through the religious, philosophical, and ethical implications for the future.