vendredi 4 novembre 2011

Ted article


Who you would like be?


If you have the possibility to change, which person would you like to be?
More creativity, more memory, more attractive, more longevity. Why not have the quick wit of a ken Jennings, why not have the quick twitch muscles...
The human genome project started in 1990 and cost 3.7 billion dollars.  Today it’s possible to have a complete sequence in one week.

If it were possible to choose a self directed evolution, a select condition to eliminate:  diabete, cancer, Alzheimer, stroke, why didn’t do it?
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. The evolution favours those creatures best adapted ti their environment.

Actually there we have three possibilities for the future:
-          First possibility: no evolution. We have thought medicine managed and preserver a lot of gene.
-          Second possibility: traditional evolution: natural, imposed by the forces of nature.
-          Third possibility: neo evolution. An enticing and frightening possibility. An evolution who is guided and chosen by us. Today, people are making choices about their offsprings. They choose to have more males than females.

The process normally take 100 000 years and we can compress it in 100 years. We will make a society that is more boring and more uniform. These are the kinds of questions that we will have to face!




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