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Bio-revolution is coming
ОглавлениеPreface
This book is a brief description of some of the results of many years of study of future social, psychological, biological consequences of the development of new important technologies, especially biotechnology1.
In this small work, I tried, without much detail and justification, to give a general idea of the emerging biomedicine and the enormous human and civilizational changes that its inevitable introduction would cause.
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In the history of humankind, we can highlight some special (meta-historical) events that drastically change the direction of its development. These events represent the introduction of technologies that are especially important for the existence of people.
Such an event was, for example, the long process of mastering fire by primitive humanity and, above all, using it for the heat treatment of food. The cardinal expansion as a result of this base of food of the ancient people changed their position in the biocenosis, became an impetus to appearance of Homo sapiens. Closer to us, the development of steam and electricity has immeasurably increased human power, led to the industrial revolution, to enormous socio-economic and political changes, to the beginning of the era of scientific and technological development.
As a result, over the past 150—200 years, people have gained
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immeasurably more knowledge about the world and created significantly more technology than in many previous millennia. It is quite logical that this new knowledge today leads to the creation of technologies that will once again change the paradigm of the existence of mankind. Today we are on the threshold of a landmark event – the biotechnology revolution.
This coming revolution of revolutions will be the inevitable consequence of the great success of science, which has now reached an understanding of almost all the basic mechanisms of the phenomenon of life.
It is quite natural that this understanding will inevitably be followed by the creation of a new biomedicine, which will be able to save a people from many natural imperfections.
Already the first steps in this direction open fantastic prospects – not only the complete deliverance of people from thousands of diseases, but also the victory over the curses of aging and inevitable mortality.
The pursuit of this goal will soon become a new universal ideology, and its achievement – the greatest act of humanism in history. However, many difficulties and challenges remain to be overcome along the way…
Vladimir Kishinets, PhD.
kishinets@mail.ru.
1. ACTUAL IMMORTALITY
Listen, I tell you a mystery:
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed…
The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians
Predictions
It is impossible to describe in such a small work all the scientific and technological prerequisites for the creation of a new biomedicine that have appeared in recent years2. The evidentiary presentation of their details would take too much space.
Therefore, we will simply confirm our statements with a few facts and quotes from authoritative sources:
April 2010. Pope Benedict XVI: “Man’s resistance to death becomes evident”, modern science seeks to find means that save not only from all diseases, “but for our ultimate destiny – for death itself. Surely the medicine of immortality must exist.”3
In 2013, at the opening of the established Google company “Life” (Calico), it was announced that its goal – to extend human life for at least 500 years. Today all activities of the company are classified.
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October 2017. President Vladimir Putin: “… in the near future [humanity will enter] in a very difficult and very critical period,” science is capable of “getting into the genetic code” and approaching possibility of creating people “with given characteristics.”4
1
My first work on the topic: “Nano Sapiens, или Молчание небес”, 2005.
2
More information about them can be found in my work “Актуальное бессмертие. 1. Надежды и перспективы”, 2017, (Actual Immortality. 1. Hope and Prospects).
3
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2010 /documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20100403_veglia-pasquale_en.html
4
http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/55890
