Comment Katz, please look up "individualist" (Score 1) 130
Katz has the nerve to call himself an individualist, and writes this:
Perhaps we should require that before new technologies are licensed, deployed or sold, we need a technological impact statement. Like the environmental statements designed to make people aware that their surroundings could be affected by construction or research projects, a TIS would mean that before projects like the gene map are sold and distributed, ordinary people are aware of the technology and its possible impact on their lives and those of their children.
This is not individualist. And it is not pro-technology. I can hardly think of a better way to ensure that technological development is restricted to the well-financed and well-connected.
Shame on you, Katz, you big poser.
Perhaps we should require that before new technologies are licensed, deployed or sold, we need a technological impact statement. Like the environmental statements designed to make people aware that their surroundings could be affected by construction or research projects, a TIS would mean that before projects like the gene map are sold and distributed, ordinary people are aware of the technology and its possible impact on their lives and those of their children.
This is not individualist. And it is not pro-technology. I can hardly think of a better way to ensure that technological development is restricted to the well-financed and well-connected.
Shame on you, Katz, you big poser.
