Word: speciesism
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Almost everyone agrees that the complete genome sequence is essential to functional genomics--everyone, that is, except William Haseltine, CEO of Human Genome Sciences, a firm he started with Craig Venter in 1992. "Human genome sequencing [of the entire genome] helps us understand the deep and interesting questions of how...
Apparently, this is the moment for widespread panic. Wielding their groundbreaking discovery, Craig Venter and Francis Collins also seem to have stumbled upon a few of our species' darkest fears: We stand on the verge of grasping every human being's genetic information. But who gets to see it? And...
In the long run, however, low tech may endure. Terry Erwin, a research entomologist and curator at the Smithsonian Institution, thinks in terms of millions of years. Humans may be the most successful species on the planet after the insects, Erwin says, but we have triggered a global species extinction...
Nobody wants to leave the planet a red, barren dust bowl like Mars, incapable of sustaining any life except the hardiest surviving lineages. But unless we anticipate the impact of technologies--before they are practical--it will be impossible for us to apply them thoughtfully, fruitfully and respectfully, or to...
So expect to see multiple species of robots appearing over the next few decades. There will be those that will be our appliances as well as those toward which we will feel more and more empathy. One day the latter will call our bluff and ask us to treat them...