Grinder
Grinders are people who apply the hacker ethic to improve their own biological bodies with do-it-yourself cybernetic devices and self-mutations. Many grinders identify with the biopunk movement (also rarely admitted with cyberculture/cyberpunk movement as well and sometimes with postcyberpunk or cypherpunk movements), open source transhumanism, and technoprogressivism.
Origins[править]
In role-playing games, 'grinding' is the practice of engaging in repetitive tasks to improve a character. The 2007 comic series Doktor Sleepless by Warren Ellis compared this to the progression of DIY transhumanism. [1]
Biohacking[править]
A biohacker is a biopunk hobbyist who experiments with DNA and other aspects of genetics. [2] [3] A biohacker (or "wetware hacker") is similar to a computer hacker who creates and modifies software or computer hardware as a hobby, but should not be confused with a bioterrorist, whose sole intent is the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, or other germs used to cause illness or death in people, animals, or plants (in the same way a computer hacker should not be confused with the more popular, yet erroneous, use of the term, describing someone who spreads computer viruses or breaks into computers systems for malicious purposes). [4]
Pat Mooney, executive director of ETC Group, is a critic of biohacking who argues that—using a laptop computer, published gene sequence information, and mail-order synthetic DNA—just about anyone has the potential to construct genes or entire genomes from scratch (including those of the lethal pathogens) in the near-future. He warns that the danger of this development is not just bio-terror, but "bio-error". [5]
See also[править]
- Biohack.me
- Grindhouse Wetware
- Grinding.be
- Doktor Sleepless
- Warren Ellis
- Grinder (biohacking) on Wikipedia
External links[править]
References[править]
- ↑ [http://sequart.org/magazine/39426/unfinished-apocalypse-doktor-sleepless/
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/01/31/playing-god-in-your-basement/618f174d-fc11-47b3-a8db-fae1b8340c67/
- ↑ http://genomealberta.ca/blogs/biohacking-101-tools-of-the-biopunk-trade.aspx
- ↑ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12516984-100-forum-roses-are-black-violets-are-green-the-emergence-of-amateur-genetic-engineers/
- ↑ http://openwetware.org/images/e/e4/Synbioreportweb.pdf