[jeffadotio]

Technology is driven by starting companies. VCs don't care about what a company does, they care about the price of the company's stock. Stock pricing is based on confidence in the value of the stock. Even if people want clones or cloned organs, nothing can be done until the slow-thinking world of finance finds a way to make money off of the ethereal premise that a company may one day do something of value.

No company will even scratch the surface of human cloning until there is at least an inkling of an immediate profit from the stock of such a company.

[leto_ii]

> Technology is driven by starting companies.

Almost always scientific and technological breakthroughs are made in publicly funded institutions such as universities and research laboratories.

The research done in companies usually takes the core science and shapes it into a sellable product, nothing much more than that.

[jeffadotio]

Right. That is what I’m saying. You are taking my comment as a general statement rather than a response to the article. The article is about the lack of companies making a product from the research.

[leto_ii]

Hmm, I may have missed it, but is the article strictly referring to companies? It seems to me that it's asking in general why nobody (in the public or private sectors) has cloned people.

In any case, my comment was referring to the idea that in general research comes from the private sector. Sorry if I miss-interpreted your comment.

[glouwbug]

Engineers truly are the oompa loompas of science

[perl4ever]

Small and orange?

[vinniejames]

I'm sure there's a market of people willing to pay a pretty penny for brand new cloned organs to double their lifespan

[keiferski]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)