I scored as transhumanist-biotech, but the picture was the same as yours. The big problem with the quiz is that it implicitly assumes (a) that the technology works, and (b) that it has no horrible side-effects. It's plain that we have to learn a lot before it's safe to develop this technology, let alone deploy it widely.
Yeah, having to break things down into black/white yes/no questions made one make all sorts of assumptions. In the end, as it was a quiz about attitudes, I answered 'Yes' to everything on the basis that I would like the situation to be such that 'yes' was a safe answer in every case.
In a real world, with its inherent complexities, I doubt all of the technologies will be so obliging. And there are quite a few things on that list where I would NOT be an early adopter.
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Date: 2008-04-01 02:38 pm (UTC)The big problem with the quiz is that it implicitly assumes (a) that the technology works, and (b) that it has no horrible side-effects. It's plain that we have to learn a lot before it's safe to develop this technology, let alone deploy it widely.
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-01 05:13 pm (UTC)In a real world, with its inherent complexities, I doubt all of the technologies will be so obliging. And there are quite a few things on that list where I would NOT be an early adopter.