The New Rules: Drugs, Technology and the Coming Bio-Revolution
18.01.10
Drugs. We're already chummy with the obvious rules: all your shots before kindergarten, no driving under the influence, and no tranquil-run slugging after "juicing." But that still leaves enormous room for a whole raft of new rules for verbatim legal substances: no concentration-enhancing drugs while taking informative tests, for example, or no judgment-impairing stuff while working with minors. In the ecumenical arena, it could also mean restrictions regarding access to certain countries -- Islamic states that robber blood levels of drugs derived from various substances, or other festive "preserves" for various kinds of substance-free tourism.
In break in on, the more we're all medicating, the more complex the behavioral and environmental interplay will become, leading to all sorts of competing eliminate sets in which individuals' weaknesses and strengths, phobias and ambitions, "freedoms from . . ." and "rights to . . ." will stress to be balanced -- often on a real-time basis. We'll
Source: World Politics Review