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ascribing superpowers to the bad guys Grab a copy of The White Plague. It's an entertaining read.
by seiji 13y ago
ascribing superpowers to the bad guys
Grab a copy of The White Plague. It's an entertaining read.
- Pxtl 13y agoThere's a science fiction novel waiting to be written that incorporates the ideas from The White Plague and Ribofunk and the 21st century IT world. Imagine the genetically-engineered counterpart to the CryptoLocker ransomware. Private and public antivirus research. MacAffee for your white blood cells. Imagine ad-supported biotech. The internet has created a sort of commoditization of fraud. Scam spam, ad-ware, spyware, etc, often run by companies operating right out in public. Professionals openly discuss security from both sides of the line. Imagine this sort of bizarre professional attitude in the a low-cost engineered-virus biotech field. What would the Windows of this world be - a suite of programmable bacteria with a solid API?
- seiji 13y agoImagine ad-supported biotech. Don't you dare.
- blacksmith_tb 13y agoToo late - Paul McAuley's _The White Devils_ has ad-covered GM butterflies in it, for example...