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[Part 5]
I’m not saying that the pursuit of new knowledge is bad, but rather that we must be wary of the various entities that are waiting to acquire the powers that this knowledge brings, including applications that are NOT envisioned by its creators.

 

 

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[Part 4]
Until we create more checks on the power of multinational corporations and better public oversight of how these new powers can be used, and some kind of infrastructure to help ensure that these powers are used for the public good, then they will be used for interests other than the public good. This, we know from history, is invariably the outcome.

 

 

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[Part 3]
Combine this with his outline of how rapidly we are aquiring new knowledge about genetics and biology, and I think we should be a bit more scared than we currently are.
We forget that science is in the hands of scientists only in the research stage. Once the knwoledge is tested and established and edges into the engineering and technology stage, it leaves the hands of the idealists and enters the hands of salesmen, corporations and governments, to apply and abuse as they see fit.

 

 

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In the past century especially, we have seen that the rate at which we have increased our technical knowledge and power has far outstripped our growth in widsom (if, indeed, we have grown in wisdom at all).
Dr. Venter’s lecture itself shores up this fact by reviewing for us how our imprudent application of petrochemistry and other technologies has put the whole planet at risk!

 

 

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That you for posting this. It’s a great lecture. Dr. Venter is unfortunately too optimistic about what this knowledge will be used for. Sure, it *could* be used for the things he envisions, and perhaps some of it will. But, at the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I fear that history has shown us that we don’t always have the wisdom to apply the knowledge we acquire to serve the greater good.

 

 

matt7333 (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam

 

 

Thankyou for this.

 

 

onetocome (1 month ago) Show Hide Marked as spam

 

 

At 8:14 he says that our ability to sense the world has evolved, this is wrong, all living things from the start have to have this ability, they did not evolved.

 

 

jalen441 (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam

 

 

Do you truly think that the senses we now have were present in the earliest forms of life? The ability to detect, decode, and respond to external stimuli has been evolving since life began. Those processes are still visible by looking at the multitude of sensory organs of varying degrees of complexity possessed by creatures that exist today.

 

 

jalen441 (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam

 

 

An easy example is the development of sight. Eyes did not start out as the refined optical gear that exists in some modern creatures. Early eyes simply detected higher or lower amounts of electromagnetic radiation within a particular range of frequencies. Such eyes can still be found in several “primitive” organisms today, e.g. flatworms. As you progress through more complex species you can observe the development of more and more complex eyes.

 

onetocome (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam

 

 

Eyes were designed just like any other living or nonliving mechanism. Just because you see different kinds of eyes it doesn’t mean that it evolved on it’s own. There had to be a beginning, a designer, a creator, a source.

 

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