“23andMe customers will soon be able to click through to their ancestral populations to find Airbnb Homes and Experiences located in their ancestral countries, and Airbnb now has dedicated pages that correspond with 23andMe’s genetic populations.”
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/21/airbnb-teams-up-with-23andme-to-recommend-heritage-travel-destinations/ …
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Sooooo spot on.
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Just wait for it to go the other way: every Airbnb you stay in will sample your genetic code and upload it to 23andMe – plus of course any number of other companies and government agencies who have declared an interest.
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Maybe the police will just be waiting for people at their destination.
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Waiting for a Deliveroo collaboration to get that "taste of (ancestral) home".
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This ... is misguided. There is the science side of this - "ancestral population" is a crude, "bucket" centric view of human history that there is a point of time that is most relevant for "ancestry" with people living there. It is at best crude, at worst plain wrong.
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But beyond the details of how to represent the complexity of human history and someone's genome estimation of the tips of this process (and its very complex) its really weird to think there is something important about the connection of someone now to this.
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