> But some campaigners worry about the new technology's unsettling potential and argue there should be a moratorium on the research until the ethical and technological implications have been discussed more widely
Are we going to have to listen to these people complain until they all die off?
> In an interview with Newsweek magazine earlier this year, Dr Venter claimed that a fuel-producing microbe could become the first billion- or trillion-dollar organism. The institute has already patented a set of genes for creating such a stripped-down creature.
Energy technology this big does not deserve to belong to a corporation. Free energy should belong to the people. We need to rewrite market economics for breakthroughs like this.
Are we going to have to listen to these people complain until they all die off?
> In an interview with Newsweek magazine earlier this year, Dr Venter claimed that a fuel-producing microbe could become the first billion- or trillion-dollar organism. The institute has already patented a set of genes for creating such a stripped-down creature.
Energy technology this big does not deserve to belong to a corporation. Free energy should belong to the people. We need to rewrite market economics for breakthroughs like this.