Biotechnology can have a great impact in our lives whether it plays a small role or a huge role. For Jenna Fox, she has learned to accept the benefits and risks of the BioGel invented by her father, and yet proves that science can be surpassed.
"Ten percent is the minimum amount. But people change. And the world will change. Of that much I am certain. Allys and I live together now. We are old women in the skin of teenagers. Another factor father and his scientists didn't count on, that biochips would learn, grow, and mutate because somewhere in that ten percent was a hidden message: survive. The biochips made sure we would" (Pearson, 264).
Two Hundred and Sixty years later, Jenna Fix and her friend Allys have exceeded the expectations of their parents, scientists, and medical technology in general. I think that it was beneficial that they grew to have the mentality of old women because they now understand the reason they were elected for such experiments.
Pearson possibly used this because she wanted Jenna Fox to establish a legacy even as she is still alive. The effect that creates is a sense of peace and acceptance of a fate that is otherwise unexpected. Jenna knows more about herself now than she ever has.
As humans with the inevitable fate of death, the gift of wisdom and vigilance is the only thing we can rely on once we come closer to our demise. These days, we need to attain wisdom even earlier because of the vast technological breakthroughs. In the future, we may have better or even worse outcomes involving the use of biotechnology. This only means that we need to decide what is best for our health and stop listening to what others think will be best for our health.
It's not just about our health, it also involves our heart and most of it. If we don't feel that it is right to listen to someone else, it wouldn't quite make sense to ignore our instincts. Jenna Fox lets us know that it is okay to even question our parents when it comes to our well being.
As I've mentioned in Blog 5 of "Jenna Fox", we shouldn't take our lives for granted no matter what opportunities we have to improve it. It's only a matter of knowing what we are capable of without relying on anything that would otherwise complicate the task of soul-searching. I think that Jenna Fox manages to keep her identity in a way many will never know how.
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