"Human beings have been modifying plants and breeding animals for selected traits for millennia, always aiming to improve yields,shelf-life or flavor. Today, genetic engineering could allow us to accomplish what has so far been impossible:feed every hungry mouth, end malnutrition and vaccinate everyone on Earth. Vitamin A has already been spliced into rice and oral vaccines integrated into fruit- and this is only the dawn of GE technology
But: we still have no idea what the long term ramifications of GE technology will be. What we do know as Amory Lovins has noted, is that biotechnology speeds up biological evolution "by roughly a billon fold, from a measure pace in which innovations are rigorously pretested over cons... to the frenetic pace of next quarter's earnings reports:" if that sound like exaggeration hers the same idea as expressed by Rodney Brooks director of the Artificial intelligence laboratory at MIT "Our 30 year goal is to have such exquisite control over the genetics of living systems that instead of growing a tree, cutting it down and building a table out of it, we will ultimately be able to grow the table"
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