Again this was a very long article and seemed like others - repetitious. This author is not warning us that Bio technology is coming and soon we will have a chip embedded in our arm instead of carrying our little USB on a cord around our necks or on a key chain. He is warning us as writers and rhetorics that we need to make our stake and be writing as part of the whole process.
I did the math and I am glad I don' think I will be around by then. My one regret is that by the time they discover how to cure Alzheimers I will already be 85 and far into it if still alive.
We must pay attention and see that soon electronic technology and biotechnology will be entwined together. This will affect our bodies as well as our scientific discoveries.
Tis change will come soon and it will be driven as a commodity and it will impact our economy just as the computer technology has. Just as the we went from a record to a CD to a tiny device around your neck on a string that gives you unending music and other audio entertainment. It may just go away completely and be in our bodies like a chip.
The good is all the diseases tha cna be cured. People will be healthier and live longer... The down side is that there will be options like controlling your child's gender and intellect. Then it will be a society of the rich who can control many biological gene connected characteristics.
The author is not saying this is all good or all bad but just that we must be writing research , we must be part of the change as writers, giving our opinions. We have a responsibility to critique these changes as they come.
One concern that has been identified already is Intellectual property. Who will be the owners .. The scientists, the electro-technologists, the writers?
"As we learn, teach and write with new technologies we have a responsibility to analyze and mold the digital compositions of today and tomorrow."
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I think the key word in your blog is "responsibility," but I don't think that applies to us only as teachers (of composition or any other subject). As citizens of the world, we have an obligation to constantly critique scientific and technological evolution.
ReplyDeleteWhat it all means is yet to be seen - but I wouldn't bet on not being around to see it, if I were you. I would imagine that many of the affects of such discoveries will manifest themselves sooner than we think.