The extinction of the human race

[Omnimorph]

Originally Posted by Taxi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But like i was saying, the more forward we move with technology, the higher the risk. Im not a luddite, i understand technology can be a good thing. But right now youve got insanity like designing plants that dont produce seeds just so you can sell the seeds to a farmer instead of him getting his seed from the plant each year. They even named the technology the terminator technology, and it can pollenize other crops and contaminate them. You dont find that kind of technology troubling in the least?

Playing with our bodies like that is not just like putting on glasses to correct vision. It is in a way, but it has to be done in a responsible way, if youre playing with genes without caring about consequences just for a quick buck, thats a really scary thought to me. It comes back to the unchecked greed i was talking about in my first post, unchecked greed gives us oil spills, unchecked greed could be the end of us. Thats what im more afraid of, not really the tech itself but what unscrupulous individuals would do with it.

Exactly, it has to be wielded with responsibility!

Technology can be used to further mankind's evolution, or impede it.

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by Omnimorph [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Technology can be used to further mankind's evolution, or impede it.

Evolution isn't some sort of enthalpic process which always tends to higher states of order. Evolution is simply a mathematic equation, a law of biology. If the environment demands that homo sapiens become a simpler organism to survive, then so be it, and technology is just one way that humans interact with their environment.

[Excision Rottun]

SKYNET has just become self-aware.

[Taxi]

See this is the kinda shit we would be worried about if we werent run by a bunch of short-sighted domineering oligarchs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_a...t/10340488.stm