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Biotech is coming/come/came?

Brad
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0 posted 2006-11-14 07:10 PM

http://www.slate.com/id/2153380/?nav=tap3

Any thoughts on the next twenty years?

hush
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since 2001-05-27

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1 posted 2006-11-15 05:42 AM

"Here I was, being lectured about humanity by a robot."

Well, that quote seems like a good prediction to me.

I don't think this will ever stop being an explosive topic. Just like abortion, there are politically two sides, black and white... while realistically, every shade of grey exists between them (the article already pointed this out).

I think it is those shades of grey that cause such moral conflict in people, leading to all the controversy.

hush
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2 posted 2006-11-18 08:58 AM

I'm sad... I though this one was interesting.

JesusChristPose
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3 posted 2006-11-18 10:09 AM

~ This topic reminded me of the movie, A.I.

"Melvin, the best thing you got going for you is your willingness to humiliate yourself."

Red
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4 posted 2006-12-10 05:07 PM

The most tell-tale statement in this article to me was that biotechnology will be "the political issue of the future"... I have a suspicion that 'biotech' will be the 'oil' of the future. It is a grossly profitable money making industry and that's what it's all about in the end.

Brad
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5 posted 2006-12-11 05:46 PM

But don't we potentially have another revolution on our hands here -- along the lines of the automobile?

I don't know, maybe I've been reading too much Neal Stephenson.

Red
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6 posted 2006-12-11 07:43 PM

"But don't we potentially have another revolution on our hands here -- along the lines of the automobile?"

Along that lines ~ I think you might find this website interesting: http://future.iftf.org/biotech/index.html

Huan Yi
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Waukegan

7 posted 2006-12-12 01:47 AM

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So when all is said and done
who is willing to go into oblivion
for the sake of an unknown unborn child?

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