Ending World Hunger
Reading a little side article this morning in Wired there was a quote by J. Craig Venture. He is the leader of modern genomics. He basically said he doesnt think humans inherently want a “slave” class. In context what he meant was he doesnt feel people want a class of beings who wait on you, do the dirty work, wash clothes, cut the grass, pick seeds out of cotton and so on. basically ruling class, and a working class as i see it.
i have always felt there is a curtain span of civilization. the people at the top and the people at the bottom. 250 years ago in the United States it was African American slaves who were owned, built the countries economy and did a large portion of the labor intensive work. In Rome it was POWs. Now time has past and we as the top class moves further the lower class moves up as well. Box and whisker plot? Who are todays “slave class” 3rd world country residents who make our Nikes and computers, grow our bananas and coffee. Do i think we always need to be working to bring up this “slave class” yes. as well as raise the highest class. In 100 years is the this working class is as it is today their is a major problem. maybe the “slave class” of 2108 will be what todays middle class is. who does all the work in 2108 that is being done by contemporary slaves today, well it would be automated, robots and things of the likes. Dr. Ventures has a different take on it.
J. sees the robots of the future to be just as much if not more of a slave class as Chinese manufacturing masses today. If someone or something is working inventive jobs, long hours, with little or no pay there is still a slave class. Where do my coffee beans come from then? after all he thinks this slave class will be gone in the future.
By designing better beings who don’t need these ancient amenities will eliminate our use of a slave class. Isn’t eating such a waste of time, money, man hours, resources, land and on and on. What if our grand children didn’t need to eat 2,500 calories a day. if our skin was soft, but tough. our bodies regulated temperature 1000x more efficiently. then we wouldn’t need those banana republics any longer, or that huge portion of people around the globe stitching jeans together. this girl wouldn’t be famous and. you get the idea.
Check out J.’s work. He is brilliant and the foremost expert in the field and that is where he sees it going. watch his TED talks if you want to know him better.
