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We've Seen The Future
OK, someone has to got to write one of those distopia books incorporating this! We've seen the future and it ain't pretty.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Procrastinating monkeys were turned into workaholics using a gene treatment to block a key brain compound, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
Blocking cells from receiving dopamine made the monkeys work harder at a task -- and they were better at it, too, the U.S. government researchers found.
The Story: In 2200, all "workers" receive gene treatments in the womb. These treatments ensure that the workers will act as voluntary slaves, they are unhappy doing anything but working. Corporations run the world and their leaders live a life of leisure based off the labor of the workers. Can one doctor start a revolution by manipulating these gene treatments or will he sentence himself and his family to death? Can the workers overcome their altered genes and regain their freedom?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Procrastinating monkeys were turned into workaholics using a gene treatment to block a key brain compound, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
Blocking cells from receiving dopamine made the monkeys work harder at a task -- and they were better at it, too, the U.S. government researchers found.
The Story: In 2200, all "workers" receive gene treatments in the womb. These treatments ensure that the workers will act as voluntary slaves, they are unhappy doing anything but working. Corporations run the world and their leaders live a life of leisure based off the labor of the workers. Can one doctor start a revolution by manipulating these gene treatments or will he sentence himself and his family to death? Can the workers overcome their altered genes and regain their freedom?
Best Seller, dudes and dudettes!
LINK to Story
posted by littleboxes at 1:53 PM
2 Comments:
Damn procrastinating monkeys! Dammit monkeys, get back to work! Get back to your typewriters! Or your organ grinders, or whatever. Nothing makes me madder than slacker monkeys.
Amen!
--littleboxes
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