Perspective 2

So I'm still working on figuring out my perspective. Where are we, where are we going? There are certain people in this world who seem to have a pulse on things that eventually filter to the rest of us several years later. Some of this is just people and politics - power people who shape things and then the product of that will power manifests years later. Some times there are forces at play beyond the control of people and it is the knowledge of those forces and the game plan which are the currency of the power brokers. Sometimes it is a little hard to tell one from the other. The first can be altered, the second can not. I have been following the events of several threads for almost 10 years now. One of the central predicitions is something that was forecast back in 1956 and is referred to as Hubbert's Peak. It is kind of scary how accurate the events around this prediction have been, the Oil wars, the economies, but the one thing that was not predicited was development of our biological knowledge. There is a power player who is always worth keeping an eye on - Craig Venter - the only human to have his personal genome sequenced. His latest venture is a company called Synthetic Genomics. So here we are, without a blink, without a fanfare, here we are. We can create new life - design it like a computer program and manufacture it on an industrial scale. Yes we have been able to do this for 4000 years, first with selective breeding turning grasses into corn and rice and breeding cows to be stupid so that they are easy to herd, and then with gene splicing and GMOs - adding extra bits. But now we can create new life to specification. Fear and power drove us to this inevitable point. It is a brave new world and I sense a lot is going to change very soon.