🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agoWhen rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?message-squaremessage-square247linkfedilinkarrow-up1330arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1320arrow-down1message-squareWhen rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square247linkfedilinkfile-text
CRISPR and other tools aren’t science fiction anymore. If the wealthy get there first, what happens to everyone else?
minus-square🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-23 days agoSame for H. G. Wells- The Time Machine book in the part where the traveler meets the Morlocks and the Eloi. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine EDIT: Got my authors mixed up, it wasn’t Jules Verne.
minus-squareleftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoH. G. Wells wrote The Time Machine, not Verne.
minus-square🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoMy bad, dunno how I could confuse my authors
minus-squareleftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoBoth are very early science fiction pioneers, I can see how they could get mixed up. 🤷♂️
Same for H. G. Wells- The Time Machine book in the part where the traveler meets the Morlocks and the Eloi.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine
EDIT: Got my authors mixed up, it wasn’t Jules Verne.
H. G. Wells wrote The Time Machine, not Verne.
My bad, dunno how I could confuse my authors
Both are very early science fiction pioneers, I can see how they could get mixed up. 🤷♂️