"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
Philosophy and the subjects known as 'humanities' are still taught almost as if Darwin had never lived. No doubt this will change in time.
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
In so far as virus-makers have any discernible motive, they presumably feel vaguely anarchistic. I appeal to them: do you really want to pave the way for a new fat-cat profession ['software-doctors']? If not, stop playing at silly memes, and put your modest programming talents to better use.