[FRIAM] bah!

[Steven A Smith]

Glen/Marcus -

Get a room!  (and finish writing that post-CyberPunk novel you just 
outlined the tech concept for)!

Seriously...  When I first started reading proto-cyberpunk (PK Dick, 
John Brunner, et al) and then the more familiar works of 
Sterling/Gibson/Cadigan/Stephenson, et alia, I didn't believe we would 
get *close* to most of that in my lifetime even though it was 
Day-After-Tomorrow stories rather than a century and one or more 
revolutions in physics (e.g. FTL travel) away.

I delivered my elder daughter to undergrad (pre-med) on the day they 
announced Dolly-the-Clone.   All through her PhD and into her PostDoc in 
Molecular Biology/BioMed she insisted there were "too many unknowns" for 
most of the tech required in these BioHack/Cyberpunk stories until 
CRISPR hit the world.   And modern Epigenetics.  And all the 
contemporary implications of the microbiome on the individual.

It all really plays havoc with traditional ideas of identity. And that 
is without prosthetics and other tech (rather than Bio) enhancements.

Who are we becoming?

The Amish are quoted as saying that when they consider adopting any new 
tech, their question is "who will I become if I use this (or that) 
technology?"    I doubt most of us Ainglish think to stop and ask such 
questions.   I think this last round of observations here highlight that 
in an interesting way.

- Steve

On 4/26/17 9:28 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> ..with branding like "Angelina" and "Scarlett"
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Apr 26, 2017, at 9:21 AM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I suppose you're right.  Like Apple products, custom flora will only be available to rich people in closed-source formats.  The rest of us will hatch from DIYBio hacked pods in our grand parents' basements or burned-out warehouses, managed by Raspberry Pis and android.
>>
>>> On 04/26/2017 08:02 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>> I imagine an iPhone app to tune the microbiome environment with continuous monitoring of white blood cells, antibodies, etc.
>>> Machine learning systems to pre-tune baby's immune system.  No risk to mommy because she's out running a marathon or whatever.
>> -- 
>> ☣ glen
>>
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