Green Biotech Hackers

Interesting thought from a not-so-interesting article:

[Steward Brand] thinks the fears of genetically engineered bugs causing disaster are as overstated as the counterculture’s fears of computers turning into Big Brother. “Starting in the 1960s, hackers turned computers from organizational control machines into individual freedom machines,” he told Conservation magazine last year. “Where are the green biotech hackers?”

An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’, New York Times, February 27, 02007