Frankenfood and Techno Sapiens

In the novel, Brave New World, we are faced with a world where people are almost no longer people. They are controlled through different techniques that are used on the fetuses of the unborn. They become a new type of human, “techno sapiens.” With breakthroughs in genetic engineering happening so quickly it is possible the society in Brave New World can become reality today.
Professor Ronald M. Green is one man who intelligently disagrees with a lot of the ideas this book presents. He fears these “enhancements” we are placing on children might not work out in the future. It is said that it is a natural feeling for human beings to want to change and better things we have. He asks if it is responsible, ethical, and right to change the human genome itself. Brave New World shows how people do take on this God like persona and change what shouldn’t be touched. What the people see as enhancements really disintegrate what is truly beautiful about human life. Because technology is available does not mean it should be used. Green states that people are using genetic enhancements of their offspring to meet “status quo.” Scarily similar to Brave New World, this statement seems to set the stage for how this science could destroy feeling and create a technopoly full of genetically modified robots.
In an academic journal by Phifer and Wolfenbarger, it is stated that neither the pros nor cons of GMOs, Genetically Modified Organisms, are fully measurable. They also state that” Our capacity to predict ecological impacts of introduced species… is imprecise.” This means that even if people are highly educated on the subject, which the majority of our population is not, they still cannot predict how these changes will affect our future. The uneducated people do not even know they are using or consuming these “frakenfoods.” In Brave New World, the people were forced to listen to hypnopedia and were taught to consume things and produce things and live a certain way, no questions asked. We are doing this to ourselves. We are changing things that should never be altered, and the affects could be devastating.