My Little Jurassic: Parks are Magic

Following Tirek’s re-imprisonment in Tartarus and the forming of Twilight’s Kingdom, Equestria experienced a sudden boom in technological advancements, both in the fields of science and magic. Everything from household appliances to entire cities began to be improved, and new industries dedicated to these improvements began to sprout like weeds. The most astounding scientific accomplishments, however, were made in the fields of genetic engineering and biotechnologies.

These fields promised to forever change the course of equine civilization; nay, the whole world. As one anonymous individual pointed out, “The advancements…have been made evident to transform every aspect of this world: from medical and health care, to our foods, to our very bodies and so on. This world will never be the same again.”

Unlike other scientific or magical developments that have been made, the developments in biotechnologies differ on three different accounts.

First, it is more board based. Similarly to technologies in other more advanced field, much of the technologies were designed and built via non magical means and powered and or operated through the use of magical energies. Unlike those other fields, biotechnology was not the product of a single institution or a collection of few dozen companies, but by thousands of laboratories in Equestia alone with some five hundred corporations and private investors spending millions of bits a year on it.

Second, the research was comparatively more frivolous. Alchemical serums that could permanently alter an individual’s body to always smell like their favorite perfume or scent, or square trees for easier bucking may indeed seem like a laughable concept, but it was indeed an idea that was funded. The fact that it could be applied to such fields as fashion and entertainment heightened concern about the thoughtless wielding of this newly developed power.

Third, the experiments conducted were unregulated. Due to it still being such a new field, policies to monitor its progress have been incoherent at best, and because the products being developed range from agriculture to cosmetics it is difficult to create an intelligent policy to monitor it.