Isn’t it disturbing to discover that the same researchers, who are working on artificial retinas, made in graphene, are also working on “medical” tattoos?
Even if everyone working on this technology were honest and good willed, and it didn’t have toxic effects, it’s a mistake to implement this on humanity for this reason: It upsets the natural progression of human evolution. Everyone knows the story of the race between the tortoise and the hare, but these scientists want humans to be the hare in the evolutionary race against, in their myopic ideal of progress, what our rate of progress would be without this technology.
They may compare this technology with eyeglasses. I need glasses to function in life, so I’ve thought, “how did, does, and will this technology affect human evolution?” I think it was good in the short run: it allowed for increased selection of other good traits like intelligence. At this point in our evolutionary journey, we’re the hare, and we’ve taken a couple of leaps forward to be far ahead of the tortoise. But, eventually, if there were no such thing as eyeglasses, humanity would reach the same level of intelligence, but with better eyes.
In short, I think that biotech, at best, messes with evolution.
Even if everyone working on this technology were honest and good willed, and it didn’t have toxic effects, it’s a mistake to implement this on humanity for this reason: It upsets the natural progression of human evolution. Everyone knows the story of the race between the tortoise and the hare, but these scientists want humans to be the hare in the evolutionary race against, in their myopic ideal of progress, what our rate of progress would be without this technology.
They may compare this technology with eyeglasses. I need glasses to function in life, so I’ve thought, “how did, does, and will this technology affect human evolution?” I think it was good in the short run: it allowed for increased selection of other good traits like intelligence. At this point in our evolutionary journey, we’re the hare, and we’ve taken a couple of leaps forward to be far ahead of the tortoise. But, eventually, if there were no such thing as eyeglasses, humanity would reach the same level of intelligence, but with better eyes.
In short, I think that biotech, at best, messes with evolution.