Friday, June 17, 2011

Beginnings No. 10 Vandervell 17th June

Vandervell ate humble pie. Since submitting his paper on Malthusian aspects of Drosophila melanogaster  fly populations, he had realised he had got it sooooo wrong. It was embarrassing. His twist on it had been a leap into the dark - right down a well! into deep water!!

By using quantum techniques to adapt sections of DNA in the fast breeding population combined with quantum computing techniques the plan had been to use the flies themselves as a quantum computer to monitor their eating habits and their fight for ever dwindling food resources and see how this might limit the population.

Talk about the law of unexpected consequences!!. The behaviour that emerged, and it now appeared that it was too late to stop it, was now a booming population of flies that had a combined super intelligence - a living quantum computer, which was very good, need I say it frighteningly good and coldly calculating at finding food for itself and investing in exponentially growing the power of its intellect to do so.

Vandervell now sat and trembled before the combined might of the worlds oversight committees of the sciences, the food commission, the computing societies, ethics, human rights, animal rights, even the Drosophila melanogaster society!  Who all wanted his blood, literally and figuratively in economic, financial, custodial and terminal senses.


Judge Aragon "shredder" Fairman III presided over the unruly mob filling the hall of the United Nations building while billions watched on TV as the humming and buzzing sound grew larger and larger, air conditioning ducts coughed and fell into silence and the light slowly failed.

In a quiet voice that surprisingly filled the room and caused a murmer of anticipation and shifting of seats, he said "I have an idea, that could turn into a plan, that becomes a course of action, which if implemented worldwide in an astoundingly co-ordinated way with awesome speed, skill and timing could ....."

Over to you ............................................

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