DNA Mapping Revolution

Understanding the language of life will empower those who "speak it" to program whatever kind of life he desires. It is the power of the Gods, and far more significant than a nuclear arsenal or advanced medicine, when completely understood.The DNA is a complete instruction set for each life. It chemically dictates the biological construction, functioning, and processing of all organs within it. Any language, to be understood, must be first mapped. Usually, the "bad" words (or diseases) are the first words learned, because they hold the greatest interest of the student/researcher.

The first benefit and the primary course of study in this effort is the identification of troublesome "codes," or diseases, but that just barely begins to scratch the surface. We will begin to recognize patterns between the code and the operations until we start to build DNA-compilers which translate human instructions into DNA-code, and attempt to reverse-engineer interesting segments to understand what they are saying specifically.

Ultimately, humans will be able to design viruses which attack certain diseases, or races, and they will move to designing better organs and even useful life forms to meet specific needs. As with all great powers, much potential for harm from side-effects exists with amateur experimentation unless great care is taken, much potential for good and evil will arise from developed/mature technologies and experience. Given the complexity and size of DNA, this process could take substantial time and resources, until the emergence of quantum computing.

Before we design viruses and other life forms, we will find it necessary to design "DNA workshops" consisting of "DNA construction machines," and stores of "DNA building materials," such as amino acids, vitamins, minerals, etc. Eventually, we will be building our own amino acids with specialized DNA/organisms. At last, a long and complex assembly line of Life will be designed and put into motion for each desired biological creation.

The science fiction names given to humans of "Carbon unit," and "Carbon machine" will be very easily accepted, and we will find ourselves with the difficulty of trying to define a new morality with the blurring of the lines between life and machine.