Cybernetics and Genetic Engineering

    • Cybernetics and Genetic Engineering

      Cybernetics present a future to mankind, the ability to repair or replace damaged organs. The ability to extend the human lifespan, perhaps indefinitely.
      Similarly, genetic engineering will undoubtedly benefit mankind in the future. The ability to select genes we want to change in animals and plants and, perhaps, in ourselves. To grow crops immune to illness and crops that produce enough food to feed all mankind. The possibility to completely eradicate genetic disorders, congenital defects and everything that has so long plagued humanity. We will be able to transcend the boundries of our biological existance. We will begin evolution on a path of our own creation.

      These things are the future, they merit attention.
      If you are reading this, you are a total git!
      Curiosity killed the git. HAHA Oh well, I suppose you were clever enough
      To find this.
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    • Why would reading this make us a total git? By the term "git", are you referring to:
      Git is a term of insult with origins in [English] denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. As a mild oath it is roughly on a par with prat and marginally less pejorative than berk.

      Do you think of yourself as a git? We often refer to others by how we feel about ourselves. ;)

      There is something to be said for genetic engineering, as long as it isn't abused.
    • kathyFL wrote:

      Isnt that how we got the covid virus ?
      Not really. As far as I remember, they were studying a virus that they found in the bodies of some animals somewhere in a market hall. Simply due to the negligence of scientists and probably also their employees, also bc of certain later made cover-up attempts, the virus was carried out of the laboratory and was able to spread unhindered.

      This has little to do with manipulating genes or breeding super viruses or anything like that. It just shows once again that the biggest failure in the system are always just humans. And it revealed too that human idiocy doesn't die out. Even perfectly modified supergenes will prevent us from that.
    • lliam wrote:

      kathyFL wrote:

      Isnt that how we got the covid virus ?
      Not really. As far as I remember, they were studying a virus that they found in the bodies of some animals somewhere in a market hall. Simply due to the negligence of scientists and probably also their employees, also bc of certain later made cover-up attempts, the virus was carried out of the laboratory and was able to spread unhindered.
      This has little to do with manipulating genes or breeding super viruses or anything like that. It just shows once again that the biggest failure in the system are always just humans. And it revealed too that human idiocy doesn't die out. Even perfectly modified supergenes will prevent us from that.
      yes COVID has nothing to do with genetic engineering. Though the vaccine is an example of how it can be used in a good way

      I'm not sure we'll ever get an answer of how it got into the population (many theories, but like every world nation, China wouldn't share any possible national security secrets). But it is all because of humans it happened. Starting with human over settlement, allowing villagers to live near to a cave where they would come into contact with faeces or eat animals with a form of the virus. Which over time became capable of infecting them. At which point scientists discovered it, and wanted to create a vaccine while the effects were not seen yet to the infected, but because of money, and the belief that it wouldn't become dangerous, were not allowed to. Many years later natural evolution has got us from a virus of no harm, in a few caves in remote areas, to one that kills worldwide

      And every month still there are viruses around with this same potential that are ignored by a wide range of the world. Many potentially a lot more dangerous

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    • jnifw3nloi wrote:

      Cybernetics present a future to mankind, the ability to repair or replace damaged organs. The ability to extend the human lifespan, perhaps indefinitely.
      Similarly, genetic engineering will undoubtedly benefit mankind in the future. The ability to select genes we want to change in animals and plants and, perhaps, in ourselves. To grow crops immune to illness and crops that produce enough food to feed all mankind. The possibility to completely eradicate genetic disorders, congenital defects and everything that has so long plagued humanity. We will be able to transcend the boundries of our biological existance. We will begin evolution on a path of our own creation.

      These things are the future, they merit attention.
      If you are reading this, you are a total git!
      Curiosity killed the git. HAHA Oh well, I suppose you were clever enough
      To find this.

      Like almost everything, there is good and bad in genetic engineering.
      It has been used in some countries to create wheat that produces more seed/more food. Problem: they forgot to make it also produce more leaves and roots. So the same amount of photosynthesised nutrient, and the same amount of soil nutrient, is spread across more seed, making the wheat produce more, but be less nutritious. So there has to be balance, the project has to be complete, not just with a single goal in mind that ignores other factors.