synthetic me

well the beginning of synthetic life is dawning. isn't that exciting?

we don't have enough trouble handling natural life, we have to start make synthetic life.

shouldn't we understand natural life and be in control of it before we make something else?

we have no idea what we are doing.

it's sorta like cutting my finger and then thinking i'm a surgeon ready to operate on people.

but we have great ideas about what good we can do for mankind by making little synthetic microbes that will do our every bidding. so compliant, so submissive, so desirous to help. yeah, right...

we will unleash uncontrollable microorganisms into our natural environment and they will run amok. perhaps this is the next evolutionary step. the synthetic microbes will eat up all the natural ones and leave none of us behind.

better do all the things you've wanted to do before the little Langoliers commence to 'a marchin'...