Douglas Adams(hitchhikers guide) has in one of his stories the idea of 'rapturists' that is the opposite of a terrorist. People that go around forcing other people to be happy....may be by using a bio weapon that makes people healthy.NoiseWiki wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 6:59 am .
My buddy said he imagined some scenario where a virus was engineered that actually cured a disease rather than causing one.
My reference to fungi recently was a bit of a nod to that. Looks like it could be a solution to cleaning up toxins and protecting crops with less toxic pesticides.
Also...the Fred saberhagen series Berzerkers where some race tried to create a perfectly peaceful and happy race and yep the ones it worked on just laid down with smiles on their faces while the ones it didn't work on went fully fucking Klingon and on a galactic level planet killing spree...it goes on for 10 for 20 books.
There are numerous stories where some wise guys try to make things better and end up genociding thier selves or worse turning into monsters.
There is bacteria that eats PCBs and turns it into safe inert material...and that koji fungus looks liken it could be really neat to play with. I expect more bio based solutions to our pollution problems in the future and also some serious bio fuck ups along the line.