Why is so little thought put into the way technology is applied? "create new organisms", Fantastic, and in 20 years 14 year-olds will have cheap desktop machines which will allow them to do the same thing, it is the history of technology.

Too bad the profit motive does not include so much important information, to humanity, in its cold calculus. We are going to follow the profit motive right off a cliff, it is just a matter of when and how.