Interview with David Pearce by Jonathan Despres. Go to the Interviews. My main interest is the use of biotechnology to abolish suffering. In a sense, the abolitionist project is an almost trivial consequence of Bentham plus Biotechnology. Alas, the abolition of suffering in humans - let alone throughout the living world - strikes most people as an utopian fantasy. So, in 1995, I wrote a manifesto (The Hedonistic Imperative) outlining a blueprint of how it might happen. I predict our descendants will enjoy genetically pre-programmed well-being that's orders of magnitude richer than anything accessible today.