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DESIGNER ANIMALS
It has been announced that designer animals for organ transplants could be with us in two years. So, need a new heart? Just pop into the hospital and swap it. However, the reality is, it could most likely have already been a reality.
Not, I might add, a heart grown in an animal. Rather, if the same enthusiasm and money had been placed on mechanical replacement organs, they could have been perfected long ago.
Duping the people
Why wasn’t this option followed? My suspicion is that it would have been bad for big business, which is everything nowadays, I’m afraid.
In normal life, culture is kept fluid and faddish, celebrities leading the scene, only to guarantee that we require lots of consumer spending to keep up with the trends. Constant change in leisure technology provides the same function.
Profit rules, OK?
If we go to the defence industry, the time has gone when the soldier said what he wanted and industry provided. Now, industry tells the soldier what the technologist wants to make, and the soldier ends up with it regardless.
Big business simply must be on top, and it is sadly the same with the medical businesses. A new mechanical heart would be a single operation, with maybe a replacement sometime in the future. But a biological heart requires constant check-up and, most importantly, a life time of drugs.
Now which, I wonder, is the most profitable option?
© Anthony North, September 2007
WHAT KIDS DREAM OF
What is your kid dreaming of for the future? A study by the London School of Economics may offer you a shock. Surveying 1,569 adults, their answer had a resounding single theme …
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POLICE UNDER SIEGE
The Chief Inspector of Constabulary has advised that the British police are bogged down with red tape, and failing to use their judgement properly, mainly due to fear of missing something …
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