Word: speciesism
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Indeed, every cell is a living example of nanotechnology: not only does it convert fuel into energy, but it also fabricates and pumps out proteins and enzymes according to the software encoded in its DNA. By recombining DNA from different species, genetic engineers have already learned to build new nanodevices...
There may be a silver lining to all this. If Moore's law somehow continues unabated, then by some estimates our computers by 2050 will be calculating well beyond 500 trillion bytes per sec., at which point, as Ray Kurzweil suggests (see "Will My PC Be Smarter Than I Am...
In hindsight, the most memorable images of science fiction often have more to do with our anxieties in the past (that is to say, the writer's present) than with those singular and ongoing scenarios that make up our life as a species--our real future, our ongoing present.
That does not, however, mean that we will one day, as a species, submit to the indignity of the chip--if only because the chip is likely to shortly be as quaint an object as the vacuum tube or the slide rule.
4 FRANKENFOOD MONITORS Not sure what's for dinner? With a little genetic tinkering, fast-growing fish and freeze-resistant fruits will help feed an overpopulated planet, but such hybrids could unwittingly wipe out the food chain. Eco-scouts will be on the lookout for so-called Trojan gene effects...