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If there's one
lesson that science and progress should've taught us by now,
it's that very rarely can you make advancements without
paying a price. The faster we make a computer chip, the
hotter it gets; the more we all hop on the corn-ethanol
bandwagon, the higher milk prices go; and the more we
continue to tinker with genetics and DNA, the better chance
we have that someday we'll be living in a real life version
of The Matrix.
Experts now say
that within the next three to ten years, scientists may make
a major announcement that they are able to create life...in
a Petri dish...from scratch. But the Real Story is that just
because we can do something doesn't mean that we should.
According to an executive with "ProtoLife" -- an Italian
company working with the so-called "wet-life" technology,
"We're talking about a technology that could change our
world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, ways that are
impossible to predict."
Uh yea -- isn't that sort of the problem? Shouldn't we know
exactly what we're getting into before we start
manufacturing genetically engineered blobs to do yard work
for us?
But don't worry -- the ProtoLife executive says it will be a
very long time before anything like that could happen. "When
these things are created, they're going to be weak...Them
getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could
this happen."
Wait a second...doesn't that completely contradict his
earlier statement that the future is "impossible to
predict"? Besides, how many times does history have to prove
that "our imagination" has no relevance to the evolution of
technology? In 1899 the Commissioner of the U.S. patent
office said, "Everything that can be invented has been
invented" and the Chairman of IBM once said, "I think there
is a world market for maybe five computers."
History should teach us that human inventions are
unpredictable, but I think our creator would tell us -- if
anyone would actually listen -- that human life is even more
unpredictable.
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