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This Scientist Is Auctioning Off His DNA and Says Yours is Valuable Too
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The Great Wall Street Genome Gold Rush
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Because technological development moves so quickly, it often outpaces changes in law and ethical norms that might be deemed necessary later. Sometimes, in the interim, people get hurt. At other times, preventive regulations may be overreactions, unnecessary to prevent harms and ultimately a drag on science and innovation. Eventually, it seems, some balance is achieved, and a nascent scientific field or technology is allowed to progress mostly according to market forces.
Our technologies are certainly changing us and our planet. Largely, they have expanded our life spans and improved our well-being, but we remain, as ever, nervous about the future in light of continuing technological change, and every day we are faced with new challenges to our expectations by burgeoning technological advancement. An example is automation. While the automation of countless jobs in both production and services promises to release millions of workers from dangerous and often tedious labors, it poses a
On December 6, 1999, after a successful landing, a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) unexpectedly accelerated its taxiing speed to 178 mph and, at a curve in the runway, veered off the paved surface. Its nose gear collapsed in the adjacent desert, causing $5.3 million in damage. At the time of the accident, the operators piloting the UAV from the safety of their control station had no idea why it had occurred. An Air Force investigation attributed the acceleration to software problems compounded by “a breakdown in supervision.” A spokesperson for Northrop Grumman, the UAV’s manufacturer, placed blame for the excessive speed totally upon the operators. There was certainly some delay in the operators’ recognition of the UAV’s unanticipated behavior. Even after they realized something was wrong, they did not understand which of its programmed subroutines the aircraft was following. The compensating instructions they did provide were either not received or not accommoda
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The American Interest
A legal showdown looms over the corporations that want to own our DNA.
April 12, 1955 was a day of celebration. Across the United States, church bells rang, sirens blew, and people poured into the streets singing and dancing. The rejoicing was a spontaneous response to news that field trials of Jonas Salk’s vaccine against the dread polio virus had been successful. The public had avidly followed the search for a vaccine for years. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers had participated in the trials, and tens of millions contributed dimes, quarters and dollars to the effort. According to a 1954 Gallup poll, more Americans knew about the polio field trials than knew the full name of their President, Dwight David Eisenhower.
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