Hacking the President’s DNA

[Evil Eye]

This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly performed in-house, by a single employee, could more efficiently be crowd-sourced to a larger group of people via the Internet. Initially, we crowd-sourced the design of T‑shirts (Threadless.com) and the writing of encyclopedias (Wikipedia.com), but before long the trend started making inroads into the harder sciences. Pretty soon, the hunt for extraterrestrial life, the development of self-driving cars, and the folding of enzymes into novel proteins were being done this way. With the fundamental tools of genetic manipulation—tools that had cost millions of dollars not 10 years earlier—dropping precipitously in price, the crowd-sourced design of biological agents was just the next logical step.

Full article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...g-the-presidents-dna/309147/?single_page=true





I thought it was an interesting read. Started out a little sensationalistic, but reality came knocking soon enough. Oh and the title is just an example.



Obligatory one-liner: Time to start living in bubbles!

 

[Evil Eye]

Wonder how more advanced the government/military is than the public though...

In this case? Wouldn't count on it being much more advanced. They can't really do their own research faster without a staff of scientists the size of a town. Biologists aren't that easy to come by

 

[Evil Eye]

I doubt they have the money to pay off that large a group and if they were blackmailing them we'd have seen leaks by now.

 

[Evil Eye]

Yes, but if scientists like these were to release something it'd get peer reviewed.