The Position I Took At The Time

A Half Century From Now, Our Grandchildren Are Likely To Look Back At The Era Of Mass Employment In The Market With The Same Sense Of Utter Disbelief As We Look Upon Slavery And Serfdom In Former Times. The Very Idea That A Human Being's Worth Was Measured Almost Exclusively By His Or Her Productive Output Of Goods And Services And Material Wealth Will Seem Primitive, Even Barbaric, And Be Regarded As A Terrible Loss Of Human Value To Our Progeny Living In A Highly Automated World Where Much Of Life Is Lived On The Collaborative Commons.

We Were Making The First Step Out Of The Age Of Chemistry And Physics, And Into The Age Of Biology.

The Empathic Civilization Is Emerging. A Younger Generation Is Fast Extending Its Empathic Embrace Beyond Religious Affiliations And National Identification To Include The Whole Of Humanity And The Vast Project Of Life That Envelops The Earth.

The Public Should Know That The Liability Issues Here Have Yet To Be Resolved, Or Even Raised. If You're A Farmer And You're Growing A Genetically Engineering Food Crop, Those Genes Are Going To Flow To The Other Farm.

What The Public Needs To Understand Is That These New Technologies, Especially In Recombinant Dna Technology, Allow Scientists To Bypass Biological Boundaries Altogether.