{"id":23647,"date":"2015-09-11T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/I-currently-have-two-fictional-settings-in-development-along-these-lines-by-which-I-mean-I-may-get-round-to-writing"},"modified":"2015-09-11T19:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:04:06","slug":"i-currently-have-two-fictional-settings-in-development-along-these-lines-by-which-i-mean-i-may-get-round-to-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/09\/11\/i-currently-have-two-fictional-settings-in-development-along-these-lines-by-which-i-mean-i-may-get-round-to-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"I currently have two fictional settings in development along these lines (by which I mean I may get round to writing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I currently have two fictional settings in development along these lines (by which I mean I may get round to writing stories in them someday, and am having fun playing with the ideas). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One is a supers setting, in which a rogue scientist has used the CRISPR\/CAS9 gene-modifying technique in scientifically (more-or-less) credible ways to create babies with superpowers. She&#8217;s discovered and shut down, but now the government has these babies. They can&#8217;t just kill them, and&#8230; it would be kind of a waste. How about raising them to be loyal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No way that could go wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other setting is a mid-future one, where the answer to &#8220;should we do these things?&#8221; has become &#8220;no&#8221; in a post-capitalist society that&#8217;s turned away from constant change in favour of the New Stability. Before they reached that point, though, there was a lot of biotinkering, and the results are still around. People just don&#8217;t think about them much (like we don&#8217;t think about the social and technological changes brought about by industrialism, because we grew up with them). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Eduardo Suastegui<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We Can Edit Genomes, Create Synthetic Life, and Remake the World. But Should We? <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/we-can-edit-genomes-create-synthetic-life-and-remake-world-but-should-we\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/we-can-edit-genomes-create-synthetic-life-and-remake-world-but-should-we<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I currently have two fictional settings in development along these lines (by which I mean I may get round to writing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-23647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sff-thought-starters","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}