In the Diamond Age nanotech shredders, bombs that enter humans, invade cells and explode are introduced. Behold the nanotech smart bombs that invade "cancer cells" and explode destroying them. www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/11/15/cancer.smart.bomb.ap/index.html Where's the mop when you need it?
I hope that everyone has seen this movie. Gattica sheds a lot of light on the subject. Sure today it's for the use in tracking down criminals. What about tomorrow? What impact will such a bill have on our children, our children's children? Will they start taking DNA samples at birth and using them to fit individuals into a caste society based on their genetic makeup? Just look at fingerprinting, a hundred years ago fingerprinting was only done on hard felons. Today everyone gets fingerprinted at birth, but unlike figerprinting DNA samples can be used to determine whether you may have a genetic disposition for one health condition or another. How would you like your children or grandchildren to be denied a job because you carry a gene that gives them an 80% chance of heart failure before the age of 40? We have seen just such offenses come to pass in the last year. What happens when governments start colecting databases filled with this information? How long would it take for HMO special interest groups to ram a bill through congress to make such information public domain?
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In the Diamond Age nanotech shredders, bombs that enter humans, invade cells and explode are introduced. Behold the nanotech smart bombs that invade "cancer cells" and explode destroying them. www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/11/15/cancer.smart.bomb.ap /index.html Where's the mop when you need it?
I hope that everyone has seen this movie. Gattica sheds a lot of light on the subject. Sure today it's for the use in tracking down criminals. What about tomorrow? What impact will such a bill have on our children, our children's children? Will they start taking DNA samples at birth and using them to fit individuals into a caste society based on their genetic makeup? Just look at fingerprinting, a hundred years ago fingerprinting was only done on hard felons. Today everyone gets fingerprinted at birth, but unlike figerprinting DNA samples can be used to determine whether you may have a genetic disposition for one health condition or another. How would you like your children or grandchildren to be denied a job because you carry a gene that gives them an 80% chance of heart failure before the age of 40? We have seen just such offenses come to pass in the last year. What happens when governments start colecting databases filled with this information? How long would it take for HMO special interest groups to ram a bill through congress to make such information public domain?