So this has been done.     Greg Gage’s Ted Talk is interesting.

I wonder if there is anyone at ITP interested who will consider upping the ante from insect to experimenting with a small mammal (cat or a dog)?   I see this as not only a possible road of exploration post-ITP, but as an inevitable milestone on the way toward a future where society will be able to use those deemed as marginally functional human beings as remotely operated droids.

Like evolution, corruption is a gradual process.   There is a certain irony in that the “youthful blasphemy” of H.G. Wells’s nineteenth-century Dr. Moreau, created the possibility for the twentieth century’s otherwise unimaginable Dr. Mengele.  And in like manner in the second decade of the twenty-first century, what has now become commonplace and taken for granted was once considered horrific, monstrous, and/or obscene.   I’m sure you can think of  a few examples.

What was once in the realm of science-fiction, fantasy, or horror is an inevitability.

Remember what Jean Luc said…