Take a look at Mark Safranski’s essay on the dangers that may be posed in the future by super-empowered individuals, a subject he and I have posted on in the past.
Take a look at Mark Safranski’s essay on the dangers that may be posed in the future by super-empowered individuals, a subject he and I have posted on in the past.
Quite. And possibly the most likely scenario for such an individual involves nanotech. Eric Drexler came up with this fifteen years ago; unless we start talking, now, about setting up an “immune system” against destructive nanotech, all it takes to destroy all life on earth is one replicating nanoassembler. ONE.
Structures are already being made using tailored DNA. The clock is ticking. One of the many reasons why something drastic needs to be done about Islamofascist jihad, and soon; so that we can devote time, resources and brainpower to something else – like preventing the extinction of all life on Earth, which for all we know means all life, period.
Thanks Dave!
Fletcher C.,
The “gray goo” scenario is just one of several hair-raising possibilities. I had a disturbing conversation with a research microbiologist recently who does consulting with the military who said she was aware of a white supremecist loon who happened to teach basic bio at some hick community college who was arrested after getting his hands on extremely lethal bacterial and viral samples, including anthrax. These people are out there.