From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 11:50:47 MST
From: Avatar Polymorph [mailto:avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com]
> Adults will be able to restructure their own genetic
> structure shortly.
>
> And with intracellular nanotech (cell repair machines/molecular
> supercomputers) we will be able to swing our dna patterns
> back and forth,just relying on internal molecular memory.
> In this sense, artificial molecular machinery operates as
> a more efficient and directional adjunct to
> the 'natural' molecular machinery of dna.
I agree that the ability to restructure the adult genome and biology
at will is more prone to creating class stratification than the
ability to structure the genome of an unborn child.
That having been said, there is a huge body of evidence that the the
ability to dictate the structure of an unborn child will be here in a
matter of years.
There is substantially less agreement on the timeframe for a mature
molecular nanotechnology that will be able to restructure adult
biology.
mez
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