Way-Out Implications of Recently Proven Non-Biological Data Storage in DNA

The successful application of storing non-biological data in DNA, in ultimate storage-capacity efficiency obsolescing harddrives and all other data-storage media, based on an idea dreamed up by British scientists Ewan Birney and Nick Goldman in a pub in Hamburg, Germany while they were drinking beer and discussing a problem (Shakespeare and Martin Luther King demonstrate potential ofDNA ..., http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jan/23/shakespeare-sonnets-encoded-dna) has some potentially monumental practical utopian and nightmarish implications for the whole of humankind in the perhaps biotechnology, bioengeering future of our own 21st century.

For now Shakespeare's sonnets and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech 'I Have a Dream' have been encoded and stored in bio-organism DNA, the molecular ancestral and hereditary cellular and biological memory and instructional database, or biologically innate instruction manual, for the construction and development, operation, maintenance, repair and deconstruction and dissolution of an organism or species and all organisms and species. The likely good news application of this biotechnology is that it will lead to the eventual DNA pre-programming of humans with all mathematical, engineering and definite science knowledge and skills, and science history knowledge, as well as an inborn worldwide or universal human language, that essentially are instinctual and intuitive to humans -- that is, making these knowledge databases and skills instinctually and intuitively understood and socially acquired and expressed with minimal mental or cognitive effort for humans in general. This biotechnology would largely solve the problem of universal human technical education and would make most humans technical knowledge and skills virtuosos and wizards. In addition, it would likely solve the problem of unhealthy food taste preferences, overeating, disposal to low physical activity and hypometabolism causally associated with obesity and obesity's consequential diseases and body functioning disorders, such as diabetes and impaired mobility. Probably it will also be used to genetically pre-program animals, beginning with pets, research and farm and ranch animals, as well as maybe even insects, with the capability to communicate on a elaborate or complex level with humans within their basic modes of communication, modified by human programming of their DNA. Unfortunately, there will likely be pressures by some human political, ideologue and parochial social interests, as well as by prevailing power mongers and wackos, to genetically engineer impose on thus, and genetically program humans or their selected human constituencies or markets with, their agenda, doctrine and dogma. We need to think about and start sorting out ethics and laws on the gross misapplication of this technology, now.