Marvin Long, Jr wrote:
> 
> ....a very long list of possible technical advances.
> 
> Now, I don't find this list bleak (at least not in the
> technical sense) - it strikes me as being wildly
> optimisitic.  Or am I just nuts?
>
Some of them are even nearer than the estimation in the
list. For example, I think that putting sensors in
pets so that they are tracked all the time will happen
_after_ this happens to people. And AFAIK they _are_
putting sensors in people _now_. Heck, if I were a
possible candidate to kidnapping, I would bug myself!

Another one, screening babies before they are born -
this is done all the time. In the future this screening
might become complete, but AFAIK about 95% of the
pregnancies with babies with Down Syndrome are aborted
*because* of screening. In India and China screening
is used to abort girls.

Alberto Monteiro

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