…likely that any safe useful embyronic editing will make it to the global mainstream within a generation or so. This will have some interesting consequences for the future of our species. Greg Bear's "Sisters" (collected in "Just Over the Horizon") took a compelling angle on a world with ubiquitous genetic editing of embryos. He made a few predictions: (1) People whose parents opt out of the process will,…
每次读到有关基因编辑的内容,我都会想起格雷格·贝尔(Greg Bear)的短篇小说《姐妹》(Sisters):https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0036/ERBAEN0036___1.htm
Every time I read about gene editing, I think of the short story Sisters by Greg Bear: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0036/ERBAEN0036___1.htm
……在一代人左右的时间里,任何安全实用的胚胎编辑都很可能会进入全球主流。这将对我们物种的未来产生一些有趣的后果。格雷格·贝尔的《姐妹》(收录在《地平线之外》中)对一个胚胎基因编辑无处不在的世界采取了极具吸引力的切入角度。他做了几个预测:(1) 那些父母选择退出这一过程的人,将会……
…likely that any safe useful embyronic editing will make it to the global mainstream within a generation or so. This will have some interesting consequences for the future of our species. Greg Bear's "Sisters" (collected in "Just Over the Horizon") took a compelling angle on a world with ubiquitous genetic editing of embryos. He made a few predictions: (1) People whose parents opt out of the process will,…