@graydon A corollary nobody seems to have noted is that if Soylent Green was real, it'd be an amazingly effective tool for amplifying an nvCJD pandemic.
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@cstross
H.G. Wells: „It [his 1923 novel Men like Gods] did not horrify or frighten, was not much of a success, and by that time, I had tired of talking in playful parables to a world engaged in destroying itself."
@cstross The Bond villains are very uncool though. Lame as a one-legged duck and twice as unloved. There's that.
@cstross "Today is worse than yesterday, but at least it’s better than tomorrow." - Russian proverb
@cstross Fucking Hell, Charlie, as Friday night thoughts go, this can go pretty awesome or pretty fucked. Or both.
@cstross We are already post-singularity (depending on whose reference frame we define the singularity by).
@cstross The Universe: "You ain't seen nuttin' yet, boy!"
I KNOW, I KNOW: someone with more money than sense uses CRISPR to rapidly adapt Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi to a new environment—the *human* rectum! And to be resistant to all known vermifuges. A plentiful habitat for a very persistent pest ...
They then market this as a sales pitch for colonic irrigation with bleach.
@cstross Universe: "I see you're a glass-half-full kind of guy ..."
@cstross A future where the courts are all bought up by private equity.
@cstross
I know you're creative, but this sounds like an especially difficult challenge.
