J. Craig Venter is the founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute and also of Synthetic Genomics Incorporated. He is responsible for the very first cloning sequence of human DNA in 1977. He has since created synthetic cells and synthetic chromosomes, and has the intentions to create “cell software” that will provide instructions for these synthetic chromosomes to have the correct DNA sequences passed to them.
If he is successful at this, just what will the magnitude of the adverse consequences be, when artificial life is real eased into the ecosystem and intermingles with naturally created life?
He is claiming that this is the next industrial revolution. He might be right about this claim, but he blatantly ignores both likely and remote possibilities of the realities of negative consequences resulting from the creation of synthetic life in the form of animal, human, animal-human hybrid, or the creation of entire new species of animals.
