Comments on: Kind of Scary

By: Karl Hallowell

Karl Hallowell — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:03:10 +0000

My take is that you couldn’t put enough safeguards in place to keep hackers from using this for their own purposes. That’s not so bad if it’s put into a dangerous organism (er, from everyone but the dangerous organisms’ point of view) and another if it’s put into the general population.

By: D. Vision

D. Vision — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:27:39 +0000

Well, with the left in charge, the government tinkering with and exterminating life, or funding of such practices, will accelerate. The media will look the other way or applaud the moves as “true, progessive future” or some other such bullshit. The media is already shy to criticize their “rescuers”. I fear that they’ll get a free pass to do stupid shit for a time…

By: Gerald Hibbs

Gerald Hibbs — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:31:25 +0000

Having implants that enable the killing of the implantee is a staple of science fiction stories. In fact there is also often the ability to merely provide varying levels of pain as well. Such implants usually lead to people trying to find and remove the implants until some people go a bit nuts and start lopping off suspected body parts.

That is a dystopic future to be wary of as I see no way such technologies won’t be possible in the future. Especially considering our low-tech current reality could easily jury rig such a device. No need to go to genetic engineering to give you nightmares.

I think the more worrying possibility is that of the government fiddling with human nature in the attempt to make a more docile population.