# Ambitious Parents Will Modify Their Own Babies by Freeman Dyson > “First, smart kids and malicious grown-ups will find ways to convert biotech tools to the manufacture of lethal microbes. Second, ambitious parents will find ways to apply biotech tools to the genetic modification of their own babies.” > **— Freeman Dyson**, *2006, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [Biotechnology will be thoroughly domesticated in the next fifty years](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10764) — the official response page preserves this exact, continuous passage and its surrounding argument. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2006 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2006 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response object and all canonical reminder links derived from it. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] - **Article:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 BCI Report]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial Selection|Artificial Selection]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Artificial Selection|Artificial Selection]] - [[wiki/Natural Selection|Natural Selection]] - [[wiki/Genetic Code|Genetic Code]] - [[wiki/Human Evolution|Human Evolution]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “First, smart kids and malicious grown-ups will find ways to convert biotech tools to the manufacture of lethal microbes. Second, ambitious parents will find ways to apply biotech tools to the genetic modification of their own babies.” — Freeman Dyson, 2006, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-ambitious-parents-genetic-modification ```