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.
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When asked, at the Connecticut retreat, how their work was different, Church replied, "Craig is more productive." To which Venter graciously added, "I use George's techniques." As they build the new biology, they have moved closer and closer into each other's orbit, perhaps the better to see, in the work of the other, how the future is shaping up. And though their work gets at the core of living things—in ways that may give humans control over the very process that created life—they are capable of an almost comical diffidence. This isn't "playing God": "You're certainly not creating a universe," said Church at the discussion table in Connecticut. "You're constructing things."
"You're only so big," Venter added.
"Pretty small," agreed Church. "Pretty small."
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