ABSTRACT
The research of the GM project and the discussion at the Royal Society of London underlines the differentiated global contexts for the technologies and commonalities. This chapter maps the narrative categories of the DEEPEN project in general, and how the texts serve more specifically as categorising tools when listening to the plural voices of GMFuturos. The European DEEPEN project illustrates the inadequancy of the public discussion of technology which attempts to restrict the terms of debate to the evaluation, minimisation of technological risk and the maximisation of reward. The European DEEPEN project identified five narratives that appeared to be central in the formation of public concerns, namely, 'be careful for what you wish for', 'Pandora's box' and 'messing with nature', joined by 'kept in the dark' and 'the rich get richer and the poor get poorer'. Genetic Modification is seen as allowing for the indefinite extension of human intervention in nature.
