And sloppy sorcerers eventually end up facing angry mobs with torches and pitchforks. Today these people are the ones calling you on the technical support phone. Hell is still hell. Nothing new here.
Hey, we have advanced - now it's the user who rings customer support and gets put in hell^H^H^Hhold.
is because of the precise physical arrangement of the protein fibers
Yeah, which is why their artificial silk is about half as strong as the real thing. But do you really want an orb web spider that can spin a half inch strand?
Better - a huge platform covered with little robots, each carrying ten spiders. The robots move as the spiders weave to knit a rope. Kewl.
Genetically altered fruits and vegetables, which are already in the works, could bring an end to hunger worldwide
Sorry to contradict you, but this has been done already, and the genetically modified rice has met what they're calling "consumer resistance". That means the people who need it are not buying it. Because, presumably, they have no money as well as no food. Until we start caring about world hunger GE will just be used the same way every other technology is used - to insulate the already wealthy from the world around them.
<rant>We already have a food surplus. The USA and EU feed their grain to animals instead of people, because "economics" says that your hamburger is more important than the life of someone you will never meet. Don't get me started on overfed "right to life" hypocrates. </rant>
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Hey, we have advanced - now it's the user who rings customer support and gets put in hell^H^H^Hhold.
Yeah, which is why their artificial silk is about half as strong as the real thing. But do you really want an orb web spider that can spin a half inch strand?
Better - a huge platform covered with little robots, each carrying ten spiders. The robots move as the spiders weave to knit a rope. Kewl.
Sorry to contradict you, but this has been done already, and the genetically modified rice has met what they're calling "consumer resistance". That means the people who need it are not buying it. Because, presumably, they have no money as well as no food. Until we start caring about world hunger GE will just be used the same way every other technology is used - to insulate the already wealthy from the world around them.
<rant>We already have a food surplus. The USA and EU feed their grain to animals instead of people, because "economics" says that your hamburger is more important than the life of someone you will never meet. Don't get me started on overfed "right to life" hypocrates. </rant>