
I decided to add another feature to the app which allows users to send the mutated gene or a 'pre-made' gene mutation to their contacts. This notion is perhaps the most sinister of all the features, operating very much like a computer virus (and therefore portraying the intwining of technologies) to alter, copy or destroy another body's 'data'.
Looking at the overlap of technologies and app in a positive light, the possibilities are that with many more people developing and editing genes, cures to illnesses such as cancer may be found, or symptoms identified earlier. A child with a mutated gene resulting in Wilms tumour can be sent a 'normal' sequence of that genome and be cured, a generation of DIY or virtual doctors may emerge.
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