[plazul]

I like your ideas. Cloning and genetic engineering does raise issues of organ harvesting and all sorts of hideous possiblities for a new breed of second class citizens, to put it mildly.

I'm not terribly optimistic that technology will solve the problems of nationalism and capitalism but I am sure, as I just alluded to, that it will lead to a diabolical class division between the haves and the have nots of the brave new world. I imagine a race of physically and intellectually superior beings served, for who knows what purpose, by a subservient underclass of inferior human beings.

But if I were writing such a novel it would center on a struggle between good and bad technology, so to speak. Good computers vs bad computers. It makes you wonder whether the ultimate equation for good would defeat the ultimate equation for evil.

I do think we will soon have machines that are truly independent thinkers and it will be fascinating to see how they come down on the human condition.