We Are As Gods (2021)

We are as gods and might as well get good at it This is the audacious opening line of the Whole Earth Catalog a compendium of wonderful tools compiled by counterculture legend Stewart Brand A psychedelic experimenter cyberspace pioneer and environmentalist he is now urging humanity to use our godlike powers to reframe our relationship with time and life itself Today Stewart is using biotech to resurrect extinct species He and a team of scientists travel to Siberia to collect ancient DNA in an effort to make a hybrid Woolly Mammoth Former allies in the environmental movement vow to stand in his way but Stewart forges ahead in his lifelong mission to conserve the whole earth