For instance, he didn't consider loss of privacy, the ability for governments and companies to surveil people, or the effect of information bubbles, for instance. Those seem like objectively bad consequences, or at least things that he'd agree are bad.
Condemning the genomics revolution as "entirely bad" is really laughable, though. The genomics era filled the drug development pipeline with thousands of new targets, and was the necessary precursor to the coming era of precision medicine and precision health.
Those sound like good points to me. Thanks for sharing. I am not enough educated on biotech to draw a conclusive opinion myself. What I understand about Monsanto’s exploits into corn production seems devastating, though.
Once you have a certain amount of karma, you can downvote comments. I don’t know what the necessary amount is.
Condemning the genomics revolution as "entirely bad" is really laughable, though. The genomics era filled the drug development pipeline with thousands of new targets, and was the necessary precursor to the coming era of precision medicine and precision health.
(Also - HN has downvotes?)