• originalucifer
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    4218 days ago

    external gestation…a womb with a view

    severe genetic manipulation… designer babies

    digit/limb/organ regeneration

    • Troy
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      1618 days ago

      Seems entirely reasonable that a Gattaca future is achievable. Whether desirable is the other question. Somewhere CJ Cherryh is being worshipped as a prophet.

      • @[email protected]
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        1318 days ago

        Artificial wombs are something that’s often presented as dystopian, but I would imagine would actually be a very good thing. Beyond the obvious help it would be to infertile couples that desired children, they would if commonly adopted eliminate the danger of birth and pregnancy complications, and discomfort associated with the process. Probably not everyone would want to use it, but I’d bet even having the option would mean a lot to a lot of people.

        • @[email protected]
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          217 days ago

          The real downside to artificial wombs is that we may rapidly become dependent on them. Half of pregnancies result in spontaneous abortion. With external gestation that assumedly wouldn’t happen. That’s a hell of a lot of evolutionary pressure which could have all kinds of consequences.

    • FenrirIII
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      317 days ago

      They just released a story about removing the gene that causes down syndrome. Pretty huge