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after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, there was forever
been an Arms race between countries to develop the most powerful weapons to have
at their countries disposal. The knowledge that your country has the power to
level thousands of tons of dirt or take millions of lives is a powerful force.
 Unlike
the arms race of the past, the motive is no longer political leverage or
military might, it is having the best product to offer the technological market.
Because the GNR technology is being created private industry and companies, the
simple goal of out doing your competitors moves the rate at which technology is
developed at a very high rate. Issues such as cloning and robots are
obvious, but what else could come from this. Will and can engineered food
be safe in the long run, is the a limit to how much you can play God with
genetics, in the future will you be able to "customize" your child
while its still a group of cells, can nanoprobes be made to repair the hole in
the ozone layer, how can we be sure that the probes have secondary effects that
are more disastrous than the original problem? Questions like this can arise
from only a brief overlook of the topic. This does not even consider the possibility
that the creators of the advancements could have malicious intend for their
creations. Could you genetically engineer a virus to only effect certain ethnic
groups, or nanoprobes for the same purpose, or even worse a despot cloning
themselves an army. Only the future can tell exactly how this field will evolve
and what positive and negative possibilities it holds.
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