I got up early on weekends as usual and opened my Podcast. Randomly picked a TED topic, to be specific, “Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: My DNA Vending Machine”, I enjoyed my breakfast as listening to it, and almost choked on my bread.

A DNA vending machine? Seriously?

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Forgive me that I am neither an artist nor a biologist, so that I can barely appreciate the artistic connotation or innovative scientific ideas, or whatever you call, containing in such a vending machine. From a commerce student’s view, I deeply worry about this vending machine’s life cycle and ethical issues it possibly is going to raise.

I roughly read through the comments under the talk, and was not surprised to find a lot of people claiming their unwillingness of “donating” or “selling” their DNA segments, with their photo on a lovely little white container. I don’t want to either. And I really doubt whether there is anyone who truly want to spend even a buck on buying others saliva, which is claimed as pieces of art with DNA. And god knows what people are going to do with such piece of DNA. Probably clone another you.

Truly, I do appreciate the creativity and bravery of Garbriel, who came up with this idea, but I can also present how unrealistic such idea is by doing a supply and demand analysis. Well, things happen anyway. Probably I should try to enjoy such kind of DNA sample’s beauty before giving definite criticizes.