Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-16 | Page 27 | Chemistry May Make Synthetic Humans, Belief

IMI mf MAM MAY MA M MAKE f SYNTHETIC I HI HIM M BELIEF Scientist Visions feay Vly y When Robots Will Do All Labor JONDON Dec 15 NEA In NEA-In In a usand years from irom now no noman man born bornt bornI t I San oman may be doing all the Akin Akin- planning writing and e fatal etal tal work cork of ot the world while born of test tubes in chem bio-chem- an laboratories does the rough i labor This startling theory is advanced J JH lL T T. F. F Rhodes the distin- distin IsM young oun scientist who is gen- gen of the British As- As of Chemists threshold of lYe e ar are Just on the chemists ate are mal mak- mak sald he Wo We have almost I with analysis Wo We are aresing using sing on to synthesis the the build- build e g. g up fP and nd the mal making ing of new and andl l able products out of the mean- mean lines nes Tho The speculation is ther 1 re almost forced upon us that I we will be able to create I ring material r f professor Loeb years ago in an r can university announced that 5 bad succeeded artificially in fer- fer f lri g the eggs of the sea urchin urchin- forrd for- for was an enormous step rd J And now we know that man most highly complicated of aUl allI all aU I rIg l things is after all aU only a of ci cells i NOW OW COMPOSITION I We i s-e s know that protoplasm that substance which is the thel l of what we call living logs Ings s s a made up of carbon ox oxy oxy- hydrogen fn n and nitrogen We Ve othe ow Ule w way y the atoms were ar- ar god g d Some day dav in a laboratory e may accomplish the thelo I ion ilon lo of these atoms In ln the samo same will then have created pro- pro thus causing life lite to man 1 Perhaps man will disI dis- dis I proC process s 's now unknown us us by which we an can incubate and andI i I liS it were this substance so 1 even more f forms of life Finally we may duce a 0 living moving being like Uke ourselves Ii IKE WILD DREAM k This may sound like a wild I cam cain But if you ou look back over overie ie stOry of the past 50 years ears 1 ti d fee e what science has done you Y yot ot be so skeptical Ancient i enal n f science simply collected i t cis Modern Modern men of science take 1 ese esa facts theorize about f r ro o their theories and apply ir onto mio ra to new Inventions jibe The dreams of ot ancients are made Q como come true truo by the moderns Ceni Cen- Cen I i ago men dreamed of flying j t f May day ay we e fly in airplanes nes The f I 1 n ties telegraph a Jn and l telephone c i i- i t i p. p novo and the talkie all the thep p I ings that wo v consider as com com- would have seemed like UIe i i. i JCk magic to the ancients What today dream of ot may happen In 2 chemical laboratories may in I 1000 years be accomplished shed fact r. r ULD BE LABORERS l' l SUPPOSe then it were vero possible in 0 jI gears ears from now for a af f to produce synthetic living t- t nr rs gs They could be he set to do the 1 1 labor of ot the world thus p ting free those human beings V fI ur begotten to undertake ther conquests of knowledge toul the laboratory created c gs be men like us us' us Who Vho knows bably not But t they would be ic approaching us in Whether they would think us also Is s a a. matter of specula- specula l you OU talk about think think- f you TOU Ou get into the metaphysical l. l metaphysicians differ among 8 a as to what thinking is p s 1 se whether we really think at all lI