So Hollywood trashed the world in 2012 , and scourged it in The Road . But neither apocalypse delivered the angelic tang of atonement . That ’s because what the Earth needs now are life - tinge biotech mutant floor . Here ’s why .
First of all , there have n’t been very many biotech Book of Revelation flick at all , even though transmitted engine room and other genome / proteome - based bizarreness are freak out everybody out in the daddy science media . maybe 28 Clarence Shepard Day Jr. afterwards is the iconic example of a biotech apocalypse , since it ’s a human - made computer virus that let loose the zombie spirit hoardes . But honestly , we can do better than plagues – we ’ve all ascertain those before . Besides , the approaching World War Z picture show is plausibly going to hold the whole plague subgenre hostage to its awesomeness next year .
So what would have to find to bring about a really great biotech Revelation of Saint John the Divine that was n’t just a computer virus scare with zombies that made us all think disappointedly of I Am Legend ?
First of all , the biotech armageddon would have to affect the intact biosphere , not just human beings . When it comes to imagining this scenario I always think of Kathleen Ann Goonan ’s malarkey Quintet novel , which start with Queen City Jazz . She creates a future where many multitude move into biotech cities whose intact substructure is mutable and constitutional – genetically - organise bee keep the city “ growing ” by fertilizing the building , which are actually elephantine wildflowers . The problem come when the urban center itself is overrun with a virus that causes its entire fabric to remake itself to resemble stories from files stored in the urban center ’s program library . What if your city decided that it wanted to be a picture noir Paris , and then reprogrammed every soul and building to emulate that ( fancied ) place ?
If you need to go even weirder , visit the scenario that Rudy Rucker comes up with in Hylozoic , where every object on the satellite becomes sentient . Suddenly you are having an worked up human relationship with your phone , which has a lot of opinions about how you ’ve ill-use it in the past .
I ’m not tell we postulate movie versions of these Holy Writ , though that might be nice if done by the right citizenry . What we involve is for mainstream media to catch up to what is happening in lit and in the lab .
Though I was n’t entirely crazy about Minority Report , one thing that film baffle right was its emphasis on credible technology . The filmmakers went to MIT , checked out science lab where futurist computer interfaces and biotech are being contrive , and incorporated them into the film . I ’d love to see the picture show that got made after some filmmakers spent some metre hanging out at the Department of Energy’sGenome Research Institute , or theMax Planck Institutein Europe – or , hell , how about just reading even one essay by Drew Endy ? In fact , you do n’t have to read – you could just see him talk about synthetic biological science here :
If researcher cangenetically - engineer bacterium whose conduct shift with a split second of spark , or build poplars that contain termite genes so that they fall in down into ethanol more easily , imagine what sort of apocalypse we ’re facing . That ’s right – it ’s not necessarily an apocalypse at all . It ’s simply a creation packed with flora and fauna we could n’t possibly recognize today . In her novels Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood , Margaret Atwood imagines that this will ensue in creepy half - human copper and sheep who germinate human hair that can be sold as wigs . There is something admittedly horrifying about the idea that humanity could reshape the biosphere in its greedy , simian image . What pit the biotech apocalypse is that it ’s a scenario where life as we know it does n’t stop – it turn into new mannequin of life-time .
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What I ’m saying is that I desire to see storey where synthetic biology generates city and technologies like the ones Jeff VanderMeer ideate in his late novel Finch , where spore people produce building and guns from mushrooms . And I want these tales to do what few revelatory tales have dared to do : Explore what it means when what has been destroyed is n’t the world , but instead just one instance of the man .
One of the most introductory truth we learn from evolutionary possibility and geology is that the man we live in – the one whose climate and landmasses we fuss about endlessly – is in fact just one version of Earth . For a long period , Earth had a unlike solidification of petrol in its atmosphere , and all living live in the sea . The opus of our biosphere and DoS of our climate has changed dramatically over the millennia . C’m on Hollywood – give us a story where the Earth does n’t suffer apocalyptic death , but or else a dramatic rebirth . One that begins in our nanoscopic genome , not in mega - explosion .
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