What is "gengineers"

Usage examples of "gengineers".

He could not even tell the killers how much they depended on the bots, who worked at jobs and for pay scales no human would accept, or on the gengineers, who had appeared just before the vaunted Machine Age must have used up the resources it required.

They forget, if they ever knew, how foul the air was growing, how close we were to exhausting the fossil fuels and ores that made the machines possible, when the gengineers offered us an alternative.

They had slaughtered gengineers and gengineered, the owners and sellers of Slugabeds and garbage disposals and Roachsters, greenskins and bots.

And he dared to wish for a body, a human body, a freedom that the gengineers had denied him.

In time, said the gengineers, perhaps they would make the replacements so complete that they could let the vanished species return to the wild.

It was illegal to give an animal the genes for human intelligence, but that only limited the number of gengineers who did it.

She meant the plants to which the gengineers had added human genes, giving them something in the way of human appearance and intelligence.

If the Nickers had the gengineers undo their changes, that would only mean that they were once more consorting with the enemy.

And there were rumors that the viral vectors the gengineers had used to make their changes could be contagious.

There had been a move to hold those up as well, on the grounds that society had quite enough gengineers already.

Yet there were those who had learned how to deal with a world of darkness many years before the gengineers learned how to repair their damage.

I hope that you will seize the opportunity before you today to ban the technology, the gengineers, and all their products.

For instance, it was fairly easy, when gengineering was new, to predict that unscrupulous gengineers would use it to make drugs available in new ways.

Similarly, the first gengineers and their regulators could not have foreseen the bots and their domination of the menial labor market.

Only far too late will we realize that it was the gengineers who made possible the continuance of civilization past the time when the resources needed for mechanical civilization became scarce.