Re: A Race of humanoid drones for labor.
Sarah Marr (sarah.marr@dial.pipex.com)
Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:37:11 +0100
At 08:12 30/08/96 +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Chris Hind wrote:
>
>> Here is a likely contravercial matter. With the coming decade of genetics we
>> will then have the ability to utilize our DNA and manipulate it to create a
>> race of humanoid drones which we could use for labor but there would be
>> little to no grey matter in the skull cavity, they would be strictly drones.
>
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>The only use I can see of them is making clones of
>ourselves with no brains, intended as organ donors.
And even then, by the time we were in a position to create 'bodies for bits'
I'm sure we could simply grow the required organs in vitro.
Sarah
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