Synthetic biology will bring us a slimy, moist future

The first post i put up on this blog was a quote from Freeman Dyson in 'Many colored glass' and descibed for me where we are heading with biology.  This wired UK article is an excellent article quoting the same source :


.....But those might be the aesthetics we'll have to get used to if Freeman Dyson was right when he wrote this a couple of years ago: "I predict that the domestication of biotechnology will dominate our lives during the next 50 years at least as much as the domestication of computers has dominated our lives during the previous 50 years."....


Read more : http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2009/09/start/synthetic-biology-will-bring-us-a-slimy-moist-future