_ Page M14 February 21, 1990. This Week TOP STORY Continued from Page 3 moral point of view. “Good or bad is in the eyes of the beholder. In my travels I have found no law, civil or moral that wasn’t legal someplace and illegal somewhere el- se. You can drink here — don’t try it in Saudi Arabia. You can kill somebody here and its not nice but if youre a 16-year-old Afghan warrior in Afgha- nistan and you haven’t killed some- body by the time you're 14, the kids on the block won’t play with you.” Not everyone likes what they hear from Dr. Tomorrow and he admits he’s had some hostile audiences. Ogden says he once had 2,000 peo- ple walk out on him. He’s had cups and chairs thrown at him. On several CC eceasions he’s had members of his au- dience get physical- ly sick and vomit because they couldn’t handle what he told them. So what’s up in the future? What’s the next big thing? “The biggest sin- gle explosion is going to be in the home entertainment industry. But the most controversial thing is going to be bio-technology,” says Ogden. “It’s going to put abortion off the front pages and on to the back burner because that’s so trivial.” So called “gene blasters” will be the hot item in the future, says Ogden. “I think I can make them for 40 bucks. You will see bio-hackers using them to make new forms of life like the world has never seen before. They’s going to be doing it just like hackers did with computers. They're going to be doing it in the garage like the Apple guys or they’re going to be You will see bio- hackers using them (gene blasters) to make new forms of life like the world has never seen before. 77 doing it in the basement because it’s not that difficult.” “Remember when computers start- ed — you had these priests in these ivy towers in white cloaks . . . they were gods . Then the hackers got into it and quickly brought everyone down to size. You're going to see bio-hackers create stuff that others have never done.” The gene blaster is “basically a pile driver, only smaller.” So, what can you do with a gene blaster? How about creating a “geep” — half goat, half sheep? Or how about a chicken with the head of a quail? “These are gene transfers that have already been done.” Ogden points out that scientists have been saying that genes can’t be transposed from the animal world to a human or to the plant world but it has already been done. “T have pictures showing that genes can be transferred from a firefly into a tobacco plant — the tobacco plant glows in the dark.” “Think of what you can transfer. You will see designer pets for the apartment. If you’re wife or girlfriend likes a little fluffy pet and she doesn’t want it to grow big and she doesn’t want it to make a mess in the apart- ment, they will design one that is white, like a little sheep, and it will look like a sheep if that’s what you want; it will urinate through its skin like some desert animals do — conse- quently it won’t make a mess around the apartment. It will never grow any bigger, and it will talk like a parrot, if you want it to.” Many adults can ’t grasp concepts like that, Ogden admits, but their “wide awake kids” certainly can. Og- den has a great deal of faith in young people. He hired his present assistant when he was 13 years old because he couldn’t find a competent adult. “A couple of years ago, Jim felt he was getting over the hill so he hired a 12 year old, a kid that built his own computer because he felt that IBM ~— Made an inefficient machine.” x] “Adults only know the known, but these kids are playing with all this stuff and they come up with stuff adults never dream of.” The younger the better — “before their brains are damaged by going through the public educational’ sys- tem.” Continued on Page 15) bi CLOCKWISE, FROM LEFT: Dr. Tomorrow cousin to the cellu alternative to costly cellular tec manufactured through stereo {ith Calls the new alchemy. The Whirigi at this point but the way it flys thought when contemplating fu lar phone. He says hnology. 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