I'd go a lot further than that, but it is a good start.
They don't seem to implore the uprise of designer babies (no disapproval either), but rather look into preventing major diseases from occurring during development (before and after birth). It's a good step, but regulation needs to be a focus in the near future.
How further?
Our football team in 20 years will be 8 foot tall, be made out of 80% muscle, have IQs that rival the heads of MENSA, and have a second pair of feet where their hands would be.
and we'll still lose on penalty kicks
There was a bit in a Red Dwarf book about this iirc.
I can't wait for people to start freaking out about GMBs.
sorry, I only eat babies that are 100% organic and GMO-free
i just want football to become this
The christ is going on with that site, at first it had text that would enlarge and black out the page, then a calendar took it's place and now it's something else.
it's a webcomic that ran for 10 days last year
I thought it was one of those sites that's like, you go back and it doesn't let you, it just says are you sure, but if you click either cancel or ok, it gets you, and brings you back.
Yeah, there was a bit about a Scottish goalie being a giant rectangle taking up the entire goal, but Scotland still managed to lose.
This was really interested until it became really stupid and about football.
Interesting really. I'm wondering how far we will go with that. Outside of using this technology to curb illnesses, for example to enhance intelligence or looks, I can imagine this technology could just drive a bigger divide between higher and lower classes though.
Could? I guarantee that it will, if we don't regulate the shit out of it. Life is already a pay 2 win game in so many ways - adding literal genome power-ups that only the rich can afford is a sure-fire ticket to dystopia.
Space marines here we come!
Designer babies are such a difficult topic. On one hand, why shouldn't the human race evolve itself to be the best it can be if we can do it safely? But there's so many questions about ethics on so many levels I'm not sure we'll ever have a good answer.
It's also a big topic and whilst I don't wish to indulge, until we have those answers it's best to lock it down until we've got a common agreement on greyer areas.
Can't wait to pay for my kids to have superhuman abilities!
This is how zombies start, calling it here. There DNA structure breaks down and then...It truly begins.
People are so inequal to begin with and since dawn of civilization have been, that relatively speaking even if we were to create genetic superhumans wouldn't make a bit of difference.
But that's only regarding humanity as a whole. Of course such differences in people will cause bigger class divide locally, comparatively.
Well we gotta have some adeptus custodes ready for when Liz finally retires to the golden throne.
It's going to be a wild ride for the world when this tech becomes more and more commonplace. Plenty of countries will probably establish guidelines into what can or cannot be done in terms of modification, but I'm sure there's going to be countries where there is no such regulations. Imagine in 100 years where you have a large part of a country that didn't have regulations literally shape the way their population looks like into something completely unrecognizable to the original populace.
As long as it is freely available on the NHS and not exclusively for the rich or privately covered, I like the idea.
This isn't even about allowing it, this them saying they cannot find cautiously, an issue with use genetic engineering for the best interests of the child but that they also required far more data.
This isn't so much acceptance as them flashing a few lights asking for data.
Furries? Furries!
Yes but we have the NHS.
Americans are still fighting over abortion you aren't going to have GMB's for like another 200 years.
