Thursday, September 07, 2006

synthetic biology: very scary stuff

sept 6, 2006

bill joy, a founder of sun microsystems, once wrote a very good essay on the dangers from self-replicating things, and he was talking about genetically engineered organisms.

this report, although it talks about new approaches to energy, is awfully close to bringing about the kind of bio-catastrophe bill joy was worried about.

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7854314&fsrc=nwlgafree

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