To that end, DNA will become the most potent drug of the future. Potions to promote intelligence and charisma will be joined by elixirs to eliminate alcoholism and homosexuality. Living things are now defined as an ensemble of chemical scripts. Biotechnology is based on a novel proposition that the whole is less than the sum of its parts. These parts, called genes, are twists on the DNA coil.
Life is very subtle.
Attempts to manage its nuances by tweaking its nucleic acid spinal cord are likely to provoke unintended consequences. Genetic engineering inherently disrupts organic coherence. The industrialization of life cannot be stopped. The control-oriented will see it as an affirmation of our destiny to consciously direct evolution. The more philosophical will see it as a deadly seduction, distorting the whole by morphing its parts.