Re: The Future

Oliver Wong wrote:
"Charles Hottel" <chottel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:_mUTh.2691$3P3.1491@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It is somewhat hard to answer your question and yet do the book justice.

I'll add the book to my "list of things to read". Meanwhile, I'll throw out a few objections and questions, 'cause I too find this topic interesting.

I will try to give the jist of why the process will keep going short of our destroying ourselves or our being destroyed by a natural disaster. Now that we have the human genome we will, at an ever increasing exponential rate, decipher the processes underlying the operation of our bodies and disease processes. This will allow us to conquer disease, end hunger and extend life span.

I'm not sure how understanding human genome will "end hunger". Hunger seems to be an economical and political problem, rather than a biological, medical or technological problem. Even if by the means by which genome-engineering will end hunger is by actually modifying our bodies so that we no longer need to eat (and instead, absorb energy through photosynthesis or something), the economical and political barriers will still exist: i.e. we won't nescessarily share this technology with those who are starving.


All we have to do is breed all humans down to 1 inch high. The population problem is then solved for a couple hundred years.

Donald
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