Unfortunately BBC iPlayer link to the Horizon programme "Playing God"
was only up for a short time and apparently not available outside the
UK.
What shocked me, and I think the programme makers, was the advanced
stage bio-hacking has reached. I for one find it worrisom that people
are sharing genetic code in digital form in a network online - making
it possible to basically start monkeying with genetic code, splicing
together bits of code, and using animals to make their experiments.
Is it just me, or does anybody else think it's way past time that
this whole deal be properly debated. Goats with spider genes to make
silk from their milk to make new stronger than kevlar materials
(think military - think money). And this is just the start.
They also re-booted some dead bacteria - by inserting a new code
- !!!???
Science and ethics!!!???!!!
I challenge all netbehavours to make art about this!!
Simon
PS Gandhi said that India should remain rural - locally self
sufficient for basic needs - While the British (I am one of them)
built the railways and exploited the whole place for mineral wealth.
And now with technology running rampant in our lives, scientists
blandly start messing with life like good old Dr Moreau and his
leopard people.
Hakim Bey is still good listening on the subject http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3HyRtdu1o0
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