Could this be you?

What do you think, beautiful?

Do you think this picture could be yours, or someone elses. 

Of course not, at least for now.

I am beginning a blog to start writing about things I find interesting that are on the briNGk of reality and possibility. That push boundaries and bring science fiction to the present. This picture hints at one of them, and that one is gene therapy.

This technology fascinates me not out of fear, but because of the possibilities it suggests for us all. How great would it be to live in a world without genetic defects, or disease. A world where you can be cured of any disorder mental or physical. That is a world I would like to live in.

But that is not the reason I started with a picture of Angelina Jolie.

While gene therapy offers ways for us to affect all our cells in our bodies at any stage of life to cure ourselves, it also allows us to change who we are fundamentally. That is why I started with this image, because people will use this powerful new technology to push the limits of individuality. To become those they worship and to perfect themselves in their minds eye. 

If we are no longer bound by our genetics at birth what will people do. Will they use it to change everything about them. To gve themselves blue eyes, or green eyes? What about white skin, or black skin? How about green skin? Even things as absurd as horns? 

This is a technology that is no longer the stuff of science fiction, it is actively being researched and performed in laboratories to cure genetic disorders, and while it may seem far fetched or even impossible that people can change their appearance and mold their physical presence. This is a technology that is on the briNGk of existence, and of changing everything in our world.

So ask yourself this, when gene therapy becomes a reality. Who will you look like?