From: The Prophetic Backbone, by R.P. Waters
*re-posting following the news of a Chinese scientist announcing the genetically changed embryos that created twin baby girls.
"Science" is becoming synonymous with science fiction largely due to media sources writing about future humans, for better or for worse. There's increasing science friction in all this; the concern that some tech company really will create alter-humans. A genome editing technology like CRISPR has gained recognition as a leap discovery, taking genomics beyond just another iteration – and unless one is keeping up with Twist Bioscience, the NHGRI or the GA4GH, it’s admittedly hard medical science to understand. What do non-scientific medias resort to most often? Behaviors! The actions taken by each person in uncountable ways and situations; they are less complex to digest. Even tech media qualifies genetics as a science within behaviorism and report on researchers who are leading in the discovery of behavior-associated genes. No soul, no human will, no choice or conscience, no religious truths – just behavior genes driving behaviors. This is what happens when genetics gets tossed in with corporate narratives and “disruption” becomes their goal.
The NIH has a clear mission to research numerous diseases and their causes, establish labs, set up cohorts, test theories and advise on marketplace applications. Then, flip the coin and we see one House of Representative leader from North Carolina and the American Benefits Council promoting H.R.1313, a bill to override all employee protections where genetic data could be made available to a health management firm. The bill is in three committees and opposed by hundreds of organizations. The result most likely in corporate: bio-discrimination. Bio data will be just another form of business data. There's no CEO or HR professional who has a clue what a genome means much less what to do with it. Disruption? How about deception?
Here’s the friction in the science fiction: we have technology developed to improve human health. As corporations merge with science entities, their branding genetically altered behaviors or human beings is a friction we should fight against.
robertpwaters.com
The Prophetic Backbone is forthcoming in 2019 as an eBook
*re-posting following the news of a Chinese scientist announcing the genetically changed embryos that created twin baby girls.
"Science" is becoming synonymous with science fiction largely due to media sources writing about future humans, for better or for worse. There's increasing science friction in all this; the concern that some tech company really will create alter-humans. A genome editing technology like CRISPR has gained recognition as a leap discovery, taking genomics beyond just another iteration – and unless one is keeping up with Twist Bioscience, the NHGRI or the GA4GH, it’s admittedly hard medical science to understand. What do non-scientific medias resort to most often? Behaviors! The actions taken by each person in uncountable ways and situations; they are less complex to digest. Even tech media qualifies genetics as a science within behaviorism and report on researchers who are leading in the discovery of behavior-associated genes. No soul, no human will, no choice or conscience, no religious truths – just behavior genes driving behaviors. This is what happens when genetics gets tossed in with corporate narratives and “disruption” becomes their goal.
The NIH has a clear mission to research numerous diseases and their causes, establish labs, set up cohorts, test theories and advise on marketplace applications. Then, flip the coin and we see one House of Representative leader from North Carolina and the American Benefits Council promoting H.R.1313, a bill to override all employee protections where genetic data could be made available to a health management firm. The bill is in three committees and opposed by hundreds of organizations. The result most likely in corporate: bio-discrimination. Bio data will be just another form of business data. There's no CEO or HR professional who has a clue what a genome means much less what to do with it. Disruption? How about deception?
Here’s the friction in the science fiction: we have technology developed to improve human health. As corporations merge with science entities, their branding genetically altered behaviors or human beings is a friction we should fight against.
robertpwaters.com
The Prophetic Backbone is forthcoming in 2019 as an eBook