Yeah, but once we get good enough to annihilate them at will we will also have a similar power to improve them through tinkering.
Just like computer viruses continue to be developed by people, biological agents will be developed as well.
Some human tinkering will be for the heck of it. Some will be government level projects that get out of control. Eventually, organized crime will be in on the action.
It's certainly possible that one day we'll have desktop genome-printers. Any technology can (and often is) abused, and that would be no exception. Hopefully, there will be a Kaspserky for this era. A "Gene Kaspersky", if you will.
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Humans are creative - bacteria just evolve fast
Yeah, but once we get good enough to annihilate them at will we will also have a similar power to improve them through tinkering.
Just like computer viruses continue to be developed by people, biological agents will be developed as well.
Some human tinkering will be for the heck of it. Some will be government level projects that get out of control. Eventually, organized crime will be in on the action.
Imagine Cryptolocker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker) but with a biological agent.
It's certainly possible that one day we'll have desktop genome-printers. Any technology can (and often is) abused, and that would be no exception. Hopefully, there will be a Kaspserky for this era. A "Gene Kaspersky", if you will.