https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)
A potential use for illegal criminals?
Good thing is it’s utter bs.
Hasn’t AI in medical scans actually solved a lot of medical issues already? so imagine it in 5 or 10 years
Not exactly as the item but “organlegging” has been a theme in science fiction for a long time. Larry Niven and others used it.
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/organlegging
Book Spares by Michael Marshall Smith (clones grown for spare parts).
Godless barbarism.
Much better this Technology “ethically source” some T-bone steaks, intead.
See also, ‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro.
The book is superb. The movie was OK.
My Dad SO wanted to leave his body to Science; had all the paperwork filed with our Teaching/Hospital University and everything.
But, by the time he passed at 83, he was so ravaged by cancer and every other ‘old guy disease’ that they wouldn’t take him. :(
Before this is actually done in people, we need to know more about the phenomenon of ‘cellular memory’:
The ability of cells to retain information about past states, exposures, or events and adapt their responses accordingly.
Said another way: The capacity of cells to maintain their gene expression program, even long after the initial environmental signal has ceased. One common example would be what we call Muscle Memory.
I would like a clone of myself.
Oh, I wouldn’t use her for medical research - I’d teach her all of my chores around here...starting with mucking out the barn, LOL!
It’s a mighty challenge to maintain ethics when so many rulers at some point view every subject to be more valuable dead than alive.
It does not end in a happy place.
So I will go on the record now as this is a bad idea and one I will actively oppose.
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“This was the plot of the movie called “The Island””
I saw this article a few days ago, and that was exactly what I thought.
An under rated movie on many levels
Kind of like the Body Banks from “Micronauts.”
We’re talking Soilent Green chow in no time.
Ethically sourced “spare” body parts????
Ummmmm, how about NO!
Here’s a Spare who doesn’t seem to be particularly useful in his current form:
Ckeck out Larry Niven and ‘organlegging’ if you are unfamiliar. He speculated that as the technology advanced to make it feasible to increase lifespans significantly by organ transplant, citizens would vote that the death penalty would be expanded to stock the body banks. So things like jaywalking would be a capital offense to supply the demand for an extra 50 years of life or whatever for the general public.
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