Thoraiya DyerScience will very soon predict your children's destiny
November 29th 2006 22:35
filed under FREEWARE FUTURE
I'll have to surprise myself as much as I can these days. In the future, I might not know how it feels like to be ignorant anymore.
One day we might hear something like this in the gynecologist's office:
"Do you want to know how your child will look like in the future? Let's map his features based on this set of sequenced genomes we got here. Okay, he will be cute, with a mole on the temple, and with blond spikes and dark brown eyes. But he'll be a candidate for hemophiliac complications. Yes, we can do something about it before he gets born and it's too late. Do you see this hemophilia genome? We'll tinker with it and reverse the process. You'll soon give birth to a healthy, non-bleeding son in the future. Oh, he will be addicted to sky diving, too. If you think that's too dangerous, we can take care of that risk-taking gene and dumb it down. That's so you won't be having heart attacks having to worry about your son's welfare all the time." Etcetera,etcetera.
"Thanks, Doc. I now officially know too much. Yes, I'd like to give birth to an ultraelectromagneticsu-
percallifragillisticpneumonoc occidefensive baby,
please."
VIA
New Scientist
Lewis Wolpert forecasts the future
I'll have to surprise myself as much as I can these days. In the future, I might not know how it feels like to be ignorant anymore.
One day we might hear something like this in the gynecologist's office:
"Do you want to know how your child will look like in the future? Let's map his features based on this set of sequenced genomes we got here. Okay, he will be cute, with a mole on the temple, and with blond spikes and dark brown eyes. But he'll be a candidate for hemophiliac complications. Yes, we can do something about it before he gets born and it's too late. Do you see this hemophilia genome? We'll tinker with it and reverse the process. You'll soon give birth to a healthy, non-bleeding son in the future. Oh, he will be addicted to sky diving, too. If you think that's too dangerous, we can take care of that risk-taking gene and dumb it down. That's so you won't be having heart attacks having to worry about your son's welfare all the time." Etcetera,etcetera.
"Thanks, Doc. I now officially know too much. Yes, I'd like to give birth to an ultraelectromagneticsu-
percallifragillisticpneumonoc occidefensive baby,
please."
VIA
New Scientist
Lewis Wolpert forecasts the future
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