I turned this notion into a short story that was published in Nature. You can read it here. Seven years later, a couple of things I stumbled across in the same week suggest that the future, or what I like to call the consensual present, has caught up with that little story. First, there's the news that Madonna employs a sterilisation team, because she's worried about fans getting hold of her DNA. And in an article on the manufacture of artificial meat, there's the following exchange between the author and a scientist:
"Could you make fake panda?"As far as I'm concerned, Madonna isn't paranoid, but prescient.
"Sure."
"What about human?"
"Don't go there."
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