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Scientists Attach Bar Codes To Embryos
Zothecula writes "Fans of the film Blade Runner may remember a scene in which the maker of an artificial snake is identified by a microscopic serial number on one of its scales. Well, in a rare case of present-day technology actually surpassing that predicted in a movie, we've now gone one better — bar codes on embryos. Scientists from Spain's Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), along with colleagues from the Spanish National Research Council, have successfully developed an identification system in which mouse embryos and oocytes (egg cells) are physically tagged with microscopic silicon bar code labels. They expect to try it out on human embryos and oocytes soon."
You mean you need to implement a barcode at the embryo stage in order to have a unique identifier to each member of society? Aren't fingerprints, ear lobes, facial features and even the DNA itself unique enough?
I won't go into the whole tin foil hat argument, but in order for your predictions to succeed, you don't need this new high tech.
BTW, how many predictions from 50 years ago did not pan out? Oh, and while on the subject: Did anyone give out a prediction about the scenarios you pointed out 50 years ago? I mean, you take something that happens now and then use a hypothetical prediction from 50 years ago to prove your point. That doesn't make sense.
Give me real predictions that panned out, and we have something to talk about. And even then I bet that for every prediction, we can find a hundred others that turned out to be nothing more than kiddie horror stories.
Shame on me, I did go into the tin foil hat argument. Sorry, folks.
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