Lady Gagas frankenskin startup has military links and the fan outrage to match
News Source : TheBlaze
News Summary
- Outer Bio uses foreskins and discarded post-surgical skin to train machine-learning algorithms and develop new cosmetic ingredients.
- Michael Polansky's company presents itself as a benign skin-care startup, but the underlying mechanics represent an opening salvo for transhumanism.
- The anti-aging market is now worth more than $77 billion.
- By 2035, it will be worth almost twice that amount.
- The human body becomes raw material, refined by machines and packaged for the very people who supplied the biomass in the first place.
In 2010, Lady Gaga arrived at the MTV Video Music Awards draped in 50 pounds of flank steak. The world gasped, and the vegans wept. The rest of us assumed we had hit peak absurdity. We were wrong.
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