“Paging the ghost of HG Wells, white courtesy telephone please…” I’ve often pondered how completely sad it is that humans are still squabbling over really simplton issues like gay marriage, when we are in fact living in the early years of the genetic revolution. The splitting of the genome is gonna make the splitting of the atom, and all of the trouble that followed, look like child’s play. More evidence from Britian, fusion of human and animal embryo’s for purposes of research. Before I get too “yellow journalist/sensational” on you, realize they are talking about the smallest percentage of animal make-up to go into the embryos, which supposedly will be destroyed within 14 days of creation. Really, not that far off from using pig arteries to save a human heart patient - or eating animals for their protein content (not now vegitarifucks…I’m dealing with bigger issues-).
But my mind quickly goes to inherent human curiosity, “let’s do it just ’cause we can” logic, ‘mad scientist shit’ if you will. For all the above board science that will be legit and force itself to answer to laws and civilized standards, there will be a small percentage of those who will pursue knowledge for it’s own sake - and ethics come second. Korean scientist and Raelians lying about having developed clones come to mind. Indeed, why should great minds allow themselves to be hampered by moral majority morons who want to pretend the earth is less than 10,000 years old? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the future is going to be freaking weird!
When are we gonna get around to genetically breeding people with gills to again repopulate the oceans, as mentioned in Alvin Toffler’s ‘Future Shock’? Make that really amazing filter gills to deal with all of the crap that will be in the water by then…