CRISPR and other tools aren’t science fiction anymore. If the wealthy get there first, what happens to everyone else?

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    Excerpt from the book Accelerando

    Free Chromosome Foundation has already published a manifesto calling for the creation of an intellectual-property-free genome with improved replacements for all commonly defective exons.

    If you would like to read more…

    Accelerando is a great sci-fi novel from Charles Stross, touching upon the theme of technological singularity. It is available as a free ebook, under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License!

    Thus, I can legally reproduce parts of it here. This is the collected chronology of the future, found throughout the book (minus spoilers):

    https://prokonsul.blogspot.com/2008/12/accelerando.html?m=1