Monday, June 14, 2010

Artificial life 'needs regulation' - public survey says

from the BBC. Isn't that a downright quaint that the public should want a say in the development of artificial life forms?  Do you think they will be given much say by the profit driven elites in our capitalist societies? Maybe when hell freezes over. In relation to this quaint notion of public input, 
Professor Paul Freemont, co-director of the UK centre for Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London, said his gut reaction to this idea was that it could be "very difficult".