This also may happen with biological viruses and other GMO organisms – and can partly explain the proliferation of gain-of-function research, which is mostly useless, but dangerous. We like to play God and like the end of the world. (But with biological virus there is a limitation: biohackers will expect that new printed smallpox virus will kill them and their family first. But they can start with personal vaccines.)
And this already happened in1980s when people started to create computer viruses for fun.
This seems like the most obvious short term scenario that will occur. We have doomsday cults right now today.
Counterpoint , the once a century pandemic happened before now. So we can make vaccines much faster thsn ever thought possible but given the...material...timeline and all the factors for virility and debility / lethality at play with bioweapons i’m not sure thats much comfort.
It seems like the kind of thing where we’ll almost assuredly be reacting to such an event vs whatever guardrails can be put in place.
This also may happen with biological viruses and other GMO organisms – and can partly explain the proliferation of gain-of-function research, which is mostly useless, but dangerous. We like to play God and like the end of the world. (But with biological virus there is a limitation: biohackers will expect that new printed smallpox virus will kill them and their family first. But they can start with personal vaccines.)
And this already happened in1980s when people started to create computer viruses for fun.
This seems like the most obvious short term scenario that will occur. We have doomsday cults right now today.
Counterpoint , the once a century pandemic happened before now. So we can make vaccines much faster thsn ever thought possible but given the...material...timeline and all the factors for virility and debility / lethality at play with bioweapons i’m not sure thats much comfort.
It seems like the kind of thing where we’ll almost assuredly be reacting to such an event vs whatever guardrails can be put in place.