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ANTIcarrot:
In today's world, we have humans, and we have other animals. We also have a half dozen technologies and sciences that are likely to give us the ability to create 'real' anthropomorphics within our lifetime. (EG: The next 40 to 50 years.) At that point we can rely on the principle that there's nothing so stupid that humans won't do at least twice and you'll have a real live furry! Well, sort of. 90 minutes shoudl be enough to cover quite a bit of territory.

Relevant technologies (some of which overlap):
*Genetic engineering. The old stand in. Several variations. What will and will not work.
*Robots. In the 'terminator' sense; but with better programming.
*Advanced virtual reality. To the point where you can't tell the difference.
*Micro-architecture. Biological lego blocks.
*Body modification. Surgery.
*Synthetic biology. Biology with no evolutionary ancestry in the natural world.
*Artificial Intelligence. In the synthetic and biological sense.
*Molecular assembler technologies. If you want to be optimistic.

Last year we had a distinguished but elderly scientist say that some things about furries were impossible. He got some of it very probably wrong. This year, well... I'm an engineer. I solve practical problems...

Would anyone be interested in this?

draconigen:

--- Quote from: ANTIcarrot on 18.03.2011, 19:30:13 ---I'm an engineer. I solve practical problems...
--- End quote ---
I love you for this line.

Also, yes, I would totally love to have this topic present on EF!

Pinky:
I think this would be massively interesting, although 90 minutes would probably be too long for little critters who want to chase butterflies in the sun to listen to it. Perhaps 45-60 minutes would be better, or divide it into a "everyone can understand this" section and a "you need some technical knowledge to understand this" section or something like that. Well this was just a suggstion anyway, the topic sounds majorly interesting.

Ziggy_wolf:
Interesting topic indeed, though not verry plausable.
I imagine this would turn out like the movie Splice, wich is about the closest thing you get to this topic movie-wize anyhow.
Jolly good movie I say, scared the living daylights out of me.
I remember there was a mention in some newspaper or othert that there were scientists over in the UK, doing genetic experiments with human and animal embryos. An interesting debate for some might be the ethical ramifications concerning such recearch.
Though moraly questionable, I would be rather curious to see what would be possible. But I supose they would resemble somthing like my earlyest drawings, a horrible misformed abmomination begging to be put out of its missery.

On a side note, since the topic is kungfur hustle.
Why not try to get Stan Sakai the guy who draws Usagi Jujimbo as a guest, I seem to recal he attended Anthrocon once.
And why not set up Paws of fury at the gamecorner or whatnot?

Pinky:
I don't think a neutral talk on the technology would be morally questionable. But I think ethics would be an interesting aspect to include in the talk.

Stan Sakai was our Guest of Honour last year and so won't be our guest this year. You're one year too late I'm afraid. But I'm sure we'll have someone interesting this year too. :-)

I don't know who's in charge of the games corner if there is one (I'm not really into games personally), but whoever it is, I suggest you talk to that person about it.

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