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Hrolf The Ganger 03 Aug 17 11.05am
Originally posted by .TUX. Huxley (along with many others) pretty much predicted the future for the human race. I wish more could see it............but life hasn't been 'engineered' that way. Humans have been manipulating the genes of dogs the old fashioned way for quite some time.Look how badly that turned out for some breeds. Messing with a highly complex system is risky at best. People will want to avoid disease and guarantee features for their children for sure. We will have a future similar to Gattaca where genes will create a new class of people and money will decide who gets the best genes. It won't be long before people want to incorporate nonhuman characteristics into themselves and god knows what else. Then we will have technology that will allow us to become cyborgs, plugged into a database of everything as well as genetically enhanced beings It will all take a bit of getting used to but you accept what you are born into as normal.
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Originally posted by .TUX.

Huxley (along with many others) pretty much predicted the future for the human race.
I wish more could see it............but life hasn't been 'engineered' that way.

Humans have been manipulating the genes of dogs the old fashioned way for quite some time.Look how badly that turned out for some breeds.
Messing with a highly complex system is risky at best.
People will want to avoid disease and guarantee features for their children for sure. We will have a future similar to Gattaca where genes will create a new class of people and money will decide who gets the best genes.
It won't be long before people want to incorporate nonhuman characteristics into themselves and god knows what else. Then we will have technology that will allow us to become cyborgs, plugged into a database of everything as well as genetically enhanced beings
It will all take a bit of getting used to but you accept what you are born into as normal.

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nickgusset Shizzlehurst 03 Aug 17 11.13am
Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger Is it your time of the month? No just shining a light on you.
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Shizzlehurst 03 Aug 17 11.13am

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Is it your time of the month?

No just shining a light on you.

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Hrolf The Ganger 03 Aug 17 11.18am
Originally posted by nickgusset No just shining a light on you. So if I ever feel the light again shining down on me, I don't have to tell you what a welcome it would be. I felt the light before but I let it slip away, But I still keep on believing that it'll come back some day.
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Hrolf The Ganger

03 Aug 17 11.18am

Originally posted by nickgusset

No just shining a light on you.

So if I ever feel the light again shining down on me,
I don't have to tell you what a welcome it would be.
I felt the light before but I let it slip away,
But I still keep on believing that it'll come back some day.

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jamiemartin721 Reading 03 Aug 17 11.43am
Genetic engineering is unavoidable and the horror fear stories get a massive focus compared to the potential this has for medicine. It terms of the prevention of disease and disorders in medicine, genetic engineering has the capacity to be as revolutionary in its impact as surgery or antibiotics. Probably even greater. Most of the diseases and syndromes that affect people have a genetic element from diabeties to cancer to mental illness. We should be careful about the concept of cosmetic genetic engineering, definitely, but imagine a world where you could genetically adapt someones immune system to not reject a transplant organ, or switch off the genetic elements of cancer that causes cells regeneration to misfunction. Of course some of that is a long way off. But fundamentally, though genetic engineering certain things like whole body transplants can become viable. "One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug" [Link]
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Reading 03 Aug 17 11.43am

Genetic engineering is unavoidable and the horror fear stories get a massive focus compared to the potential this has for medicine.

It terms of the prevention of disease and disorders in medicine, genetic engineering has the capacity to be as revolutionary in its impact as surgery or antibiotics.

Probably even greater. Most of the diseases and syndromes that affect people have a genetic element from diabeties to cancer to mental illness.

We should be careful about the concept of cosmetic genetic engineering, definitely, but imagine a world where you could genetically adapt someones immune system to not reject a transplant organ, or switch off the genetic elements of cancer that causes cells regeneration to misfunction. Of course some of that is a long way off.

But fundamentally, though genetic engineering certain things like whole body transplants can become viable.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Hrolf The Ganger 03 Aug 17 11.54am
Originally posted by jamiemartin721 Genetic engineering is unavoidable and the horror fear stories get a massive focus compared to the potential this has for medicine. It terms of the prevention of disease and disorders in medicine, genetic engineering has the capacity to be as revolutionary in its impact as surgery or antibiotics. Probably even greater. Most of the diseases and syndromes that affect people have a genetic element from diabeties to cancer to mental illness. We should be careful about the concept of cosmetic genetic engineering, definitely, but imagine a world where you could genetically adapt someones immune system to not reject a transplant organ, or switch off the genetic elements of cancer that causes cells regeneration to misfunction. Of course some of that is a long way off. But fundamentally, though genetic engineering certain things like whole body transplants can become viable. And what will we do with all these people who don't die?
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03 Aug 17 11.54am

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

Genetic engineering is unavoidable and the horror fear stories get a massive focus compared to the potential this has for medicine.

It terms of the prevention of disease and disorders in medicine, genetic engineering has the capacity to be as revolutionary in its impact as surgery or antibiotics.

Probably even greater. Most of the diseases and syndromes that affect people have a genetic element from diabeties to cancer to mental illness.

But fundamentally, though genetic engineering certain things like whole body transplants can become viable.

And what will we do with all these people who don't die?

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nickgusset Shizzlehurst 03 Aug 17 12.02pm
Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger And what will we do with all these people who don't die? Let them look after the mutants.
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

And what will we do with all these people who don't die?

Let them look after the mutants.

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jamiemartin721 Reading 03 Aug 17 12.11pm
Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger And what will we do with all these people who don't die? Have less children? The issue of population control needs to be addressed directly, not indirectly through environmental factors. Of course you could also genetically engineer people so that they cannot have children. "One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug" [Link]
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Reading 03 Aug 17 12.11pm

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

And what will we do with all these people who don't die?

Have less children? The issue of population control needs to be addressed directly, not indirectly through environmental factors.

Of course you could also genetically engineer people so that they cannot have children.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Apollofuzz On the edge of reason 03 Aug 17 12.29pm
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley anyone?? [Link] Fiction or Glimpse into the future? Originally posted by jamiemartin721 Have less children? The issue of population control needs to be addressed directly, not indirectly through environmental factors. Of course you could also genetically engineer people so that they cannot have children. Edited by Apollofuzz (03 Aug 2017 12.29pm) I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat I wear my war time coat in the wind and sleet.
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On the edge of reason 03 Aug 17 12.29pm

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley anyone??

[Link]

Fiction or Glimpse into the future?

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

Have less children? The issue of population control needs to be addressed directly, not indirectly through environmental factors.

Of course you could also genetically engineer people so that they cannot have children.

Edited by Apollofuzz (03 Aug 2017 12.29pm)

I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat
I wear my war time coat in the wind and sleet.

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Stirlingsays 03 Aug 17 12.37pm
I think a lot of these dystopian views of the future depend upon forms of unregulated capitalism succeeding and implementing their visions over the entire free world....because it doesn't work if these things are available elsewhere. These systems require the lack of an opposition to succeed. Of course none of us can predict what is beyond our generation but personally I find it less likely that unregulated capitalism or communism will return in a major way.....I guess what happens after the next major worldwide crash will be interesting. Sounds cool for a Bladerunner movie variant though....I might just get my pen out. Edited by Stirlingsays (03 Aug 2017 12.39pm) 'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)
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03 Aug 17 12.37pm

I think a lot of these dystopian views of the future depend upon forms of unregulated capitalism succeeding and implementing their visions over the entire free world....because it doesn't work if these things are available elsewhere.

These systems require the lack of an opposition to succeed. Of course none of us can predict what is beyond our generation but personally I find it less likely that unregulated capitalism or communism will return in a major way.....I guess what happens after the next major worldwide crash will be interesting.

Sounds cool for a Bladerunner movie variant though....I might just get my pen out.

Edited by Stirlingsays (03 Aug 2017 12.39pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

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nickgusset Shizzlehurst 03 Aug 17 12.39pm
Originally posted by Stirlingsays I think a lot of these dystopian views of the future depend upon forms of unregulated capitalism succeeding and implementing their visions over the entire free world....because it doesn't work if these things are available elsewhere. These systems require the lack of an opposition to succeed. Of course none of us can predict what is beyond our generation but personally I find it less likely that unregulated capitalism or communism will return in a major way. Sounds cool for a Bladerunner movie variant though....I might just get my pen out. The penis mightier than the sword. Edited by nickgusset (03 Aug 2017 12.39pm)
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Shizzlehurst 03 Aug 17 12.39pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Sounds cool for a Bladerunner movie variant though....I might just get my pen out.

The penis mightier than the sword.

Edited by nickgusset (03 Aug 2017 12.39pm)

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Stirlingsays 03 Aug 17 12.41pm
Originally posted by nickgusset The penis mightier than the sword. Edited by nickgusset (03 Aug 2017 12.39pm) Man...that would have to be one freakingly small sword. 'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)
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03 Aug 17 12.41pm

Originally posted by nickgusset

The penis mightier than the sword.

Edited by nickgusset (03 Aug 2017 12.39pm)

Man...that would have to be one freakingly small sword.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

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Hrolf The Ganger 03 Aug 17 12.53pm
Originally posted by jamiemartin721 Have less children? The issue of population control needs to be addressed directly, not indirectly through environmental factors. Of course you could also genetically engineer people so that they cannot have children. But then you would have a population of old people. There could be treatments that maintain youth but there would still be stagnation. Imagine the 1990's lasting for 500 years.
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Hrolf The Ganger

03 Aug 17 12.53pm

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

Have less children? The issue of population control needs to be addressed directly, not indirectly through environmental factors.

Of course you could also genetically engineer people so that they cannot have children.

But then you would have a population of old people.

There could be treatments that maintain youth but there would still be stagnation. Imagine the 1990's lasting for 500 years.

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