> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20370
Industrial GE is a failure -- both from the technical and the publicity perspective -- and this article's notion that individual small-scale GE could save the show is scary, not to say mad: Whatever manipulated organisms would get out (and many more than in the protected industrial tests would!), they'd pollute the gene pool of their natural peers, with unpredictable but predictably disastrous consequences. Dyson compared the private small-scale GE experimenting with the first computer hardware geeks, but the appropriate comparison (especially because he said that the 20th century was that of physics) would be private experimenting with radioactive substances and nuclear power. Would Dyson want the risks of a little Chernobyl in his neighbor's garage? The same goes for genetic experimenting. If these reckless madmen get their ways, then good night to the future of work and just about everything else... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
