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external gestation...a womb with a view
severe genetic manipulation... designer babies
digit/limb/organ regeneration
They just released a story about removing the gene that causes down syndrome. Pretty huge
Seems entirely reasonable that a Gattaca future is achievable. Whether desirable is the other question. Somewhere CJ Cherryh is being worshipped as a prophet.
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.
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.
And then all of this gave birth to the terrorists known as the Naturalists™...