Technology has been a double-edged sword: Ray Kurzweil: Renowned Futurist Ray Kurzweilin in an interview to Kushan Mitra says technologies that succeed are the technologies that meet human needs

Renowned Futurist mesmerised the audience with his views about how far information technology (IT) has progressed and how far biotechnology will progress. spoke about how he reversed his Diabetes and eliminated his genetic predisposition to heart disease. Kushan Mitra interviewed him after his addre...

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Published in:Business today (New Delhi, India) India), 2012-04
Main Author: Kushan Mitra
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Mitra, Kushan
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Summary:Renowned Futurist mesmerised the audience with his views about how far information technology (IT) has progressed and how far biotechnology will progress. spoke about how he reversed his Diabetes and eliminated his genetic predisposition to heart disease. Kushan Mitra interviewed him after his address. A. Embryonic stem cells are kind of a special case that ran into a religious and ethical issue. The other thing wrong with embryonic stem cells is that there are not very many of them. You want your own DNA, not DNA from an embryo. That particular controversy, science has worked its way around. You can now take your skin cells, add four genes and produce something equivalent to an embryonic stem cell but with your DNA in it. Those opposed to embryonic stem cells are not opposed to this because there is no destruction of an embryo. That was a very specific issue.
ISSN:0974-3650