{"id":51815,"date":"2015-07-22T19:07:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/gazing-toward-the-post-natural-world.html"},"modified":"2015-07-25T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T16:06:45","slug":"gazing-toward-the-post-natural-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/gazing-toward-the-post-natural-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Gazing toward the Post-Natural World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Crispr technology makes genetic manipulation a whole lot easier and a whole lot cheaper. The implications for good are huge, ditto the implications for evil (or just error). History teaches us humans never make tools without, sooner or later, somewhere, using them. How do we set up ethical bounds on scientists (and governments, and businesses) the world over before ecological disaster or human tragedy ensues?<\/p>\n<p>Darned if I know. But it seems pretty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/07\/crispr-dna-editing-2'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/GDOWtqrAtMxMwwXqb6C7A54IPpDRWHdkomA5M_BGHsTNYHbLIHNF7WkWt2jH4vWeTJl1tKI1CPJ9mlRQliUJ4s2ZQujuHC8m9k1-VNBp2Y6ZhUOugr0rkg=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/07\/crispr-dna-editing-2'>Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. | WIRED<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWe now have the power to easily alter DNA. It could eliminate disease. It could get really out of hand.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/arDKpzcGZzi'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Crispr technology makes genetic manipulation a whole lot easier and a whole lot cheaper. The implications for good are huge, ditto the implications for evil (or just error). History teaches us humans never make tools without, sooner or later, somewhere, using them. How do we set up ethical bounds on scientists (and governments, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/gazing-toward-the-post-natural-world.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gazing toward the Post-Natural World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36824,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/dna-as-fingerprinting.html","url_meta":{"origin":51815,"position":0},"title":"DNA as Fingerprinting","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Jun-13 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My initial reaction is that, while I can see ways that this could be abused (e.g.., running analyses on DNA that might indicate medical information that could be used as evidence, or could be leaked to employers, etc.), it's hard for me to argue with the basic metaphor of DNA\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33527,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/dna-art.html","url_meta":{"origin":51815,"position":1},"title":"DNA Art","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-May-13 11:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"A kinda cool idea (if, yeah, a bit creepy). \u00a0But ...'There is, of course, no way of knowing how accurate Dewey-Hagborg\u2019s sculptures are \u2014 since the samples are from anonymous individuals, a direct comparison cannot be made. 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