05-05-2014, 05:47 PM | #61 | |
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Re: Genetic Enhancments and society
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05-05-2014, 11:00 PM | #62 |
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Re: Genetic Enhancments and society
Advanced biotech won't solve social problems such as "healthcare". Yes, there will be less disease. Injury will be easier to repair. People will live longer and even be more beautiful. However, some will still have better mods, care and treatment. Just as nearly everyone in the US has access to cheap drugs undreamed of a century ago, yet we still have conflict over availability of medicine, we'll still have conflict over availability of medicine, mods and professional care with the wonder drugs of the future. The bar will rise for, in a non-distiopia, all, but some will have more. Poverty is relative.
Of course, if you put mod microbes in the water to make everyone hive mind, then you can fix it. , but we're back to that distopia thing. |
05-05-2014, 11:53 PM | #63 | |
formerly known as 'Kenneth Latrans'
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Re: Genetic Enhancments and society
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But it won't help the economic situation of healthcare as it is now in the US, for the reasons he stated. The underlying problem there isn't that people get sick. It's actually really, really, complicated.
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