The Pentagon is apparently trying to develop immortal synthetic organisms for military use. Of course, they’ll build in a ‘kill switch’ so the power of these machines will be contained…sort of like how the destructiveness of the sub-prime mortgage crisis was contained.
Of course, anyone who has watched The Terminator knows what happens when we tamper with artificial intelligence and the like. (I say this half-jokingly.)
Seriously though…this raises plenty of bio-ethical issues. Oh yeah, and the whole ‘immortality’ thing might be a small challenge too.
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Denise Brown
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Plan B Economics
