Re: LIFESCIENCE: The Clone Age : Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology

[melinda rackham <melinda@subtle.net>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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>"From the very first page, The Clone Age scared
>and angered me. It's a story of science gone
>awry--motivated by power, greed, and fame. Lori

i think the last time we assumed that scientific endeavour was not
ultimately motivated by profit and  power was in 1950. science is a market
industry like any other, and as such serves the adgenda of a minority. i'm
not suggesting that individuals within this arena don't have " pure" or
humanitarian motives, but that research into fields or illness where there
is no obvious profit to be made or no product to be exploited arent
economically justifable, therefore don't often happen.

by limiting the parenting of scientific ideas/research/development by
ecomomic selection, we get  fairly inbreed offspring,  which is sort of
cloning ourselves into a tunnel of even narrower perspectives.


melinda rackham
http://www.subtle.net


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