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It is illegal today to use DNA testing for employment, but as science advances its understanding of genes that correlate to certain desirable traits -- such as leadership and intelligence -- business may want this information.
People seeking leadership roles in business, or even those in search of funding for a start-up, may volunteer their DNA test results to demonstrate that they have the right aptitude, leadership capabilities and intelligence for the job.
This may sound farfetched, but it's possible based on the direction of the science, according to Gartner analysts David Furlonger and Stephen Smith, who presented their research at the firm's Symposium IT/xpo here. This research is called "maverick" in Gartner parlance, meaning it has a somewhat low probability and is still years out, but its potential is nonetheless worrisome to the authors.
Businesses could also weed out people with diabetes, heart defects, and any other congenital defects that can lead to absenteeism.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday October 20 2016, @04:15PM
That's crazy talk.
The American ideal of business is that you don't have to do any work, and revenue just keeps coming in forever.
Some concepts in law actually embody this idea. Copyrights and Patents. For example, write a song once and you and your grandchildren never have to work again. While a factory worker builds something and doesn't get a perpetual revenue stream for some reason.
Or try this. Build an OS. Then just duplicate CD-ROMs cheaply to keep getting revenue. Improve this by having OEMs pre-install it for you, so you do nothing.
Or patent rectangles with rounded corners. (Circles are a special case of this, and thus covered by the patent.)
You take a drug developed by NHS, do clinical trials and get approval to market, then set outrageously high price. Then keep evergreening it for perpetual ever lasting revenue. Buy old out of patent drugs, be the exclusive manufacturer, and set outrageously high prices.
Plenty more examples exist of this thinking. Banksters. Junk bonds. Enron style stock fraud.
The idea that you have to keep working to keep earning seems like a relic of the past (to some people). I wonder if they teach this in business school or something?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.