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March 21, 2019 1 min

Prognosis is back for a second season. Over the next few weeks, we're acknowledging how science and technology are making it easier for us to know pretty much everything there is to know about ourselves: Where we come from. The best time to conceive. What might kill us. And what happens when we start getting all that information, and handing it over to others.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, I'm Michelfe Cortes, who'st of Prognosis, Bloomberg's podcast about
the intersection of health and technology. We're back with season two.
To my surprise, I found out that I am not
my dad's daughter. This person looked at me said like, three,

(00:23):
have you read the privacy policy? This app when I
got the results from twenty three and me I matched
with somebody who was my half brother. I went from
having what I thought was six full siblings to having
no full siblings at all. Science and technology are making

(00:44):
it easier for us to know well pretty much everything
there is to know about ourselves, where we come from,
the best time to conceive, and what might kill us.
So what happens when we start getting all of that
information and what happens when we start giving it to others.

(01:05):
You can subscribe to Bloomberg's Prognosis podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
or wherever you choose to listen. Join us for our
first episode of season two on Thursday, March twenty eighth,
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Jason Gale

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