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I had a dream about an ex-girlfriend of mine, who I know is at the University of Wisconsin, working on the chicken genome project. We were sitting in an apartment--hers, I assumed—and she was telling me that she was working with biological engineers who were trying to make a breed of neotenic cats, that is to say cats that would grow older and larger but would never stop being kittens. (Humans are neotenic apes, ostriches are neotenic birds; we retain useful infantile characteristics into adulthood.) Anyway, she turned and pointed, saying, “oh, here’s one of them now!” A little tortiseshell kitten walked into the room, look at me briefly, then turned to her and said, “Mummy, I’m hungry!” “They talk?” I asked. “Yes,” she said, “they’re very bright”.
It’ll be an interesting century. You’ve heard of Biosteel’s spider-goats and the phosphorescent TNT-detecting microbes, right? |
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