Again, nobody knows for sure, but a child growing up in the early stages of this species revolution would undoubtedly experience considerable discrimination. The biotech culture and communities, exist, in part to buffer these threats. A unique form of religion is emerging from these cultures which identifies new rites of passages and incorporates them into its ritual. The burn-in process has taken on the importance of a baptism in some circles. Ironically, being so closely tied to technology and its rapid innovations has added excitement for biotechs over their great potentiality.
Human beings have a more limited and very slow pace to species' development.
Suddenly, biotechnology, has seemingly offered unlimited new potentials and possibilities. In this case, the biotech child will likely experience numerous significant enhancements in his lifetime. Rumors of limitless memory capacity, unbelievable processing abilities, wireless, cellular mind-links with other biotechs are circulating now and feed into both the excitement within the biotech culture and the developing suspicions within the larger public. I would like to say that the rapid advance of technology has created an ethical minefield for social workers and society generally. While this case should be settled on its own merits and on safeguarding the welfare of this particular child, I am concerned that the issues presented here will make it difficult to divorce the larger issues from this specific situation.