> My takeaway from Soylent is this: You can’t simply hack humanity into a more optimized version of itself. Our needs and drives have been shaped by millions of years of co-evolution and won’t be engineered away by a coterie of coders — no matter how much pedigreed venture funding they secure. 

> Because, in the end, even the most powerful code can’t reprogram the squishy, gloriously inefficient realities of the flesh.

> And reader, that’s not at all a bad thing.