From: rlm
Location: alexandria,va
Date: 10/15/2008
Enjoyed duo of Darwins Radio.
Wondering about insects. Nature has already developed optimal microbotic delivery systems: mesquitos, ticks, fleas, bees, ...
Idea: a future where insects have become more symbotic with mammals, especially, humans, delivering vaccines instead of disease, or producing immunities with smart immune systems that create them, or possibly in honey such as bees. It would be beneficial to them, if they were symbotic purveyors of health, instead of vectors for disease, and of having humans trying to exterminate them. Mesquitos were the first to have a genome decrypted; wouldn't be cool if they were modified to create vaccines and distribute them instead of spreading disease. Then again there could be the dystopia, where insects spread addictive drugs, ...
From: Greg Bear
Date: 10/16/2008
Very cool ideas here! Genetically engineered bee-stings! Wild thought.
From: patrick
Location:
Date: 10/18/2008
Already implied in Legacy - when Olmy was being 'sampled' by the flora/fuana on that planet he went to.
From: Bill Goodwin
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 10/29/2008
"Where the bee sucks..."
The bees will inject us with ARPHIDS (radio-frequency identification chips). These will be biochips, however, manufactured according to spec by the insects' bodies. The arphids will talk to banks, goods, phones, OnStar, the police, immune systems, each other...and to the folks that write the specs.
The chips will mutate. Flawed chips are noise in the system, "loyal" chips will evolve means to deal with them (it is the bees that evolve: the chips "reward" them, an apparent Lamarkianism but not really). A superorganism already half-in-place now goes global. The tables are turned on the Illuminati: a Bee Computer rules the world.
It chooses a Speaker to address the disoriented humans while their troublesome and no-longer-necessary cerebral cortexs are being dismantled. The Speaker? Buzz Aldrin.
From: Greg Bear
Date: 11/07/2008
Hum a few bars... And we'll get down to beesness!
From: Bill Goodwin
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 11/08/2008
You kill me, B!
From: Greg Bear
Date: 11/08/2008
Now zzzz....
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