Social media’s magicians spent decades perfecting the art of slicing human attention into advertising revenue. Is the next step on the corporate road map farming human tissue for spare parts?
The tech is there, or almost there. The ideas have percolated for decades. All it takes, it seems, is the will.
The concept of individual self-ownership becomes entirely obsolete.
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An early pitch deck for R3 Bio, a quiet biotech startup operating out of California, laid out a vision that makes classic horror fiction look rather mild. The company’s leadership, reports suggest, engaged in internal discussions regarding the production of brainless, nonsentient human bodies designed for the explicit purpose of organ harvesting, pharmaceutical testing, and eventual commercial deployment.
They christened these biological monstrosities “organ sacks.”
The terminology speaks volumes to the
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