[ExI] Column- "Why the Singularity isn't going to happen"

[BillK]

2010/10/16  ablainey wrote:
> She says 'We are trying to undo the damage that penicillin did''  really?
> 'we' being humanity. Is this what she thinks the average person is trying to
> achieve? even as a lose metaphor for undoing the environmental damage caused
> by technogic advances, I can't think of anything less suitable than
> penicillin.
>
>

That's journalistic shorthand for the antibiotic resistance problem.

More and more diseases are appearing that our antibiotics have no
effect on. And there are very few new antibiotics in development.


BillK