Posted on 05/12/2018 8:22:51 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Louis Anderson, a 16-year-old aspiring biotech entrepreneur, eats dinner with an anarchist, a world-renowned tongue splitter and at least 30 people who have implanted themselves with magnets or radio-frequency identification chips, a.k.a. RFID implants, for fun on a recent Friday night in Tehachapi, Calif.
We’re at Grindfest, an annual meetup of biohackers, and Louis has never met a single member of the community in the flesh before, although he’s been planning the trip for two years. They have a lot to talk about.
Will artificial intelligence kill us or save us? Will global warming be worse than experts predict? When will the next financial crisis strike? What brings Louis here?
“I don’t want to say too much,” he demurs, the lanky high school senior as coy as anyone confident enough to defer college to start a company might be. “We could be competitors.”
“We’re transcending capitalism!” scoffs Michael Laufer, who helped publish free online instructions on how to create a D.I.Y. version of the perennially expensive prescription EpiPen, provoking a warning from the Food and Drug Administration. “Competition doesn’t exist!”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“We’re transcending capitalism!”
Without the free market economy you would be pooping behind a bush in the woods after running from predators and trying unsuccessfully to hunt down your lunch for 5 hours.
So STFU.
Hope u don’t need an MRI anytime soon. Good luck with that.
Well put. Reminds me of how socialism invariably fails the toilet paper test.
LoL!! Perfect.
Maybe people will be more “attracted” to each other...(ahem).
Hehehe.
So they're not even so "free-thinking" to question whether global warming exists at all?
Old story from my grandfather (Princeton Class of 1929) — be went into banking (1929 not the best time to start that career).
Although studying finance, he did have to take some science classes, although he didn’t have much interest. At one point, the professor was discussing magnetism and stated that several metals were magnetic — nickel and cobalt for example. “But,” he said, “there is no metal more attractive than iron.”
My grandfather pulled out a $20 gold piece and said, “Here is metal more attractive!”
Jury still out on the Washington D.C. version.
Ah, there's the "A" word again. Aspiring. A term the press generally applies to low-life losers who just got busted for murder or were victim to that by their aspiring peers.
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