Iain Banks interviewed in today’s Grauniad (my emboldening):

‘Does he genuinely foresee a bright future for the human race like the one laid down in his Culture series? “The optimistic answer is that perhaps we can alter ourselves. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with genetic modification; and if there is a bigotry gene, then they should start work modifying us. We are our technology, and we can’t turn our backs on it.“‘

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