Will technology overrule ethics ?

With all the technological innovations current and ahead and the speed at they hit the market the question rises if we'll stay at the ethical side of the line. Before i pose my question to you, let me first introduce them with some resources on this matter :

1. A (either or not) controversial startup Cambrian Genomics allows for customers to create their own 'creatures'. “Anyone in the world that has a few dollars can make a creature, and that changes the game,” Heinz said. “And that creates a whole new world.” the article states. and it continues quoting the CEO of Cambrian: “I can’t believe that after 10 or 20 years people will not design their children digitally.” At a recent conference in Vienna, he said, “We want to make totally new organisms that have never existed.” While the technology seems far away from being able to do that, they are already printing DNA for Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

2. Dan Horrowitz teached us in 2011 in his TED-talk : "we need a moral operation system"

3. I was proud to have Luciano Floridi on stage at the first TEDx i have set up (back in 2011 in Maastricht) where he talked about the Fourth Technological revolution.

Luciano now advices Google on what he calls "modern identity" a combination of modern ethics and philosophy.

4. On Coursera there is an interesting course by em. Professor Robert Bailey on "technology and ethics"

5. Recently at TEDxBrussels Gerd Leonard gave a great talk on "digital ethics and the future of humans in a connected world.

6. Good treatment is about when to start, but ... it also is about when to stop" sad Jan Lavrijsen at our TEDxRadboudU.

Now to the question.
In the documentary that was made about our work at the REshape Center of Radboud University Medical Center last year i posed the question "...since if we can do literally everything, which all of this almost looks like, when do we actually are going to die..."

(sorry the youtube video is not available INside the NL, please turn to uitzending gemist)

Based om my journey into this field over the past years, next to empower patient aimed innovations itself, i more and more start(ed) to be interested in the ethical side of the current innovations.
Tomorrow-night we'll have a forum-debate led by our ethics department about this based on 3 key questions where i will debate with professors and the audience on this matter.

1. Do we really want everything that will be possible?
2. What competences do we need to cope with the change
3. (how) will this change the relationship patient and doctor ?

I would love to hear your take on this in the comment section below. This is a very important topic since the number, impact and speed of innovations that will enter the health(care) arena will increase massively. I will update this post accordingly after the discussions in the upcoming time.

So, please help us to spread and join the discussion below now!