tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959227089815463704.post6604094676321837356..comments2023-10-02T17:00:45.520+08:00Comments on Kevin's GATTACA World: What 5G mobile networks portends for the future of personal genomicsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959227089815463704.post-88666749156984589642014-11-15T02:30:18.960+08:002014-11-15T02:30:18.960+08:00Remember that scene in GATTACA where Irene tests &...Remember that scene in GATTACA where Irene tests "Jerome", obtaining a genetic profile before dating him?<br /><br />Lot of that is going to happen, but not just for romance. IMHO, dating is small fry, compared to non-romantic kinds of short-term, practical, everyday relationships. Who to contract. Who to carpool with. Who to trust. <br /><br />Genoism will rise exponentially, as genetic marker patterns crop up as initially incremental, but increasingly accurate warnings of who to socialise with, and who to be cautious about.<br /><br />Complaints of genoism will rise in proportion to how the predictors of anti-social behaviour grow increasingly predictive, and protective, towards the weak and vulnerable, incidentally causing naturally anti-social persons to perform fewer anti-social acts (due to fewer opportunities), but also unjustly judging them before they commit any misdeeds. <br /><br />Gratuitous handwringing will ensue over this prejudice, largely in proportion to how much actual, anti-social predation of man upon man (and woman... and child... the weakest among us...) in everyday life decreases. <br /><br />The most powerful, influential predators will screech the loudest, and will be the last to gradually lose the trust on which their lifestyle depends.RZThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14noreply@blogger.com