Welcome To The Brave New World
The debate over stem cells and cloning stirs deep passions, but experts suspect much more profound and much more divisive arguments as reproductive technology advances. On a very limited level some couples already choose their children on the basis of genetics. In vitro fertilization offers a chance to test different embryos and select the one without for example without down syndrome. In ten or twenty years science may give us many more choices, not just to prevent disease, but to engineer smarter, taller, thinner, stronger children and pass those traits on to later generations. We could, in short, control human evolution. The ethical questions are staggering. To pick just one, might we breed two strains of humans; the genetically enhanced and the natural.
And here’s the final irony. The expense of genetic engineering means that only the rich could buy disease free super babies. Class differences would become genetic differences. Some think that eventually humans could even split into two different breeds.
Developments in genetics might allow treatment of the symptoms of aging and this would result in greatly increased life expectancy for those who could afford it. The divide between those that could afford to buy longevity and those that could not could aggravate perceived global inequality. Dictatorial or despotic rulers could potentially also buy longevity, prolonging their regimes and international security risks. – United Kingdom Ministry of Defense: The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036
Related conspiracies: data mining, genetic engineering, global surveillance, human databasing, population control, RFID
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