Well, it's here now.

[Ishmael]

A subject I brought up for discussion over a decade ago.

Human Genome successfully Edited

If it can be done, it will be done. We're off and running now.

Ishmael

 

[Pookie]

That baby is definitely gonna have an innie.

 

[GimpyIntellect]

Everything that once seemed impossible, now is possible.

Thank you, Donald T.

 

[Lancecastor]

A subject I brought up for discussion over a decade ago.

Human Genome successfully Edited

If it can be done, it will be done. We're off and running now.

Ishmael

Congratulations, Ish, on predicting the editing of the human genome over a decade ago!


NOBODY ever predicted that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216/

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And when we can raise a designer baby without the need for a womb...




It's Coppertop time!

U Kant touch this.

 

[Rightguide]

A subject I brought up for discussion over a decade ago.

Human Genome successfully Edited

If it can be done, it will be done. We're off and running now.

Ishmael

Oh boy CRISPR Critters.

 

[Ishmael]

Congratulations, Ish, on predicting the editing of the human genome over a decade ago!


NOBODY ever predicted that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216/

The discussion wasn't whether the genome would be edited, it was about the ramifications.

Ishmael

 

[Ishmael]

And when we can raise a designer baby without the need for a womb...




It's Coppertop time!

U Kant touch this.

That's in the works too. Or to be precise, they're working on an artificial womb that can be sustained in a lab. Designer armies, designer scientists, designer athletes, designer drones to do the dirty work..........the list is endless.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Perfect biological children whom the government will then educate in the belief that they can, with the proper tools, abrogate human nature, the dream of all collectivist societies...

 

[Ishmael]

Perfect biological children whom the government will then educate in the belief that they can, with the proper tools, abrogate human nature, the dream of all collectivist societies...

That's a discussion in its own right. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.........and more. The laws of unintended consequences tend to bite such planners in the ass.

Ishmael

 

[Lancecastor]

The discussion wasn't whether the genome would be edited, it was about the ramifications.

Ishmael

Not to quibble, but you're not the first to discuss the ramifications, either.

However, I do enjoy these malthusian threads of yours; they're classics.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That's a discussion in its own right. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.........and more. The laws of unintended consequences tend to bite such planners in the ass.

Ishmael

Especially when their perfect children decide that after 65 there is no "quality of life."

 

[Nipples_Mcgee1]

A hundred or two years from now, we'll all be genetically engineered, 3D printed cyborgs.

 

[Ishmael]

Not to quibble, but you're not the first to discuss the ramifications, either.

However, I do enjoy these malthusian threads of yours; they're classics.

Not quite Malthusian, but your point is taken.

Ishmael

 

[Ishmael]

Especially when their perfect children decide that after 65 there is no "quality of life."

That too is up for debate. Once they start editing the FOXO transcription factor that age my bump up to 85-90. And if they ever get in to in situ editing life spans could be considerably longer.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

May you live in interesting times...

 

[jaF0]

And when we can raise a designer baby without the need for a womb...

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa

Zager & Evans, 1969

 

[SeeNoHearNoSpeakNo]

Perfect biological children whom the government will then educate in the belief that they can, with the proper tools, abrogate human nature, the dream of all collectivist societies...

Via natural paternal imprinting,Ikea is/will be the dastardly foundation for the belief that "they can" acheive such collective dronism.

 

[Gotham_Central]

Perfect biological children whom the government will then educate in the belief that they can, with the proper tools, abrogate human nature, the dream of all collectivist societies...

And we shall call his name Khan Noonian Singh.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

This world needs more fake people. Maybe they will all have multiple Alts.