Re: The Future

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:10:25 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>
enlightened us:

Oliver Wong wrote:
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.

Exactly. There's never been a famine in a democracy.


Isn't the Netherlands a democracy? They had a famine in the 17th
century.

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