Beinging back creatures after their unfortunate extinction, was always a dream - Which until now seemed too far fetched. However it just happened now! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9ejy3gdvo This is what Jurassic Park concept was all about. But today science fiction is now reality. What I'm now wondering about it, what would it be like to bring back plants and trees which have become extinct?
I saw that article this morning. Very cool. I know they've been trying to do this with the wolly mammoth.
Imagine if we could get our beloved childhood pets back this way too! But right now, in the near future, with this technology. What we will get will be an exact copy. But it won't be them. As those memories and personality could never be reconstituted in a new body. Not until we master quantum entanglement also, where all those memories and personality will be recomposed in a new body. Which by genetic engineering will be tweaked so that it wouldn't ever age - Dare I say it, this in a way describes the very concept of a blissful place in the afterlife, (Heaven). Where everyone lost will get recomposed and enjoys happiness for eternity. All seems far fetched right now. But so was recreating the Dire Wolf and the Woolley Mammoth until recently...
I don't agree with it at all. They won't have good lives being confined and you can't let them, or, god forbid, Wooly mammoths go roaming the earth. Science gone stupid.
As the Chinese often say: May you live in interesting times. May you be recognized by powerful people. May you get what you wish for... By the way, these jokes aside, this technology is not bad. What we actually are fearing is the irresponsible use of it - Regarding which we see no remedy, hence the anxiety... First it was DDT, which at first was pushed as a miracle product, which couldn't do any harm, (perish the thought). But later ruined the environment and destroyed the ecosystem. All because of irresponsible use, by ignorant people. So that is the question we need to be pondering over right now - Has humanity finally become mature enough to handle this type of technology? That's why I started this thtread, as this is only a small taste of what's going to come our way pretty soon. AI (artificial intelligence) is now everywhere. And generally doing good, as it's working on finding cures for cancer, heart disease, and arthritis - All ailments which we were told we would just have to learn to live with. Yest in the next 5 years, (all thanks to AI), we will see a massive gain in the quality of our lives, as well as start to witness life extension. We will start to see all of this at the horizon by 2030, just 5 years from now. However in 10 years from now, 40% of all jobs will get taken over by AI. Resulting in massive unemployment globally. And we all know the trend, as unemployment has always been the contributing factor before every major uprising and revolt inspired revolution. At the end of which always resulting in world wars... Anyway the Jeannie is out of the bottle now. And it's not going to get back in. So how do we proceed from here?
Most Sci fi that I've read doesn't have a good ending when it comes to A.I. Even Star Trek, that portrayed a future where A.I. interacts with everyday life (The Replicator, medical procedures and even one of the crew in the later series) still shows the darker side of technology in the form of The Borg, human machine hybrids. In the Terminator series, A.I. simply wanted to wipe out the inefficent humans. "How do we proceed from here?" Pull the plug before it kills us all....
I had a tusk from a wooly mammoth. Way back in the very early 70's Dad brought it home from a hunting trip in AK. By home I mean we lived on the west coast of AK in Bethel. They thought it was firewood sticking out of a river bank. Pretty cool fossilized ivory, but it was not stone, it was still bone.
