The Internet Dialogue calls for ”What If...?” questions (max 5 lines) with an introductory brief statement (max 40 lines) about threats and opportunities that can be expected from developments in biotechnology and genetic engineering, and that have a magnitude and global reach which merits thoughts about anticipatory social innovations. One aim is to explore how the crossfertilization between biology and information technology has opened new opportunities for worldwide transdisciplinary cooperation and on various challenges to personal integrity and privacy. 

Your statements will be open for debate during the webforum in September and October. The Dialogue will be forward-looking but will exclude questions like: ”What if the efforts to assassinate Hitler had succeeded ? ”, or ”What if Fleming had not discovered penicillin ? ”. They should also avoid being caught in the trap of human reproductive biology.

See examples of questions and statements at  http://www.biofocus.org/id.html. 

Please send your contribution(s) to Mr Tommy Jonsson  ( tj@ekvitec.com ).