A Stanford University professor predicts that humans will stop procreating through sex within the next thirty years.
Professor Hank Greely, who acts as the director of Standford’s Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences, claimed parents will instead choose from a selection of lab-made embryos created from their DNA.
“I don’t think we’re going to be able to say this embryo will get a 1550 on its two-part SAT… But, this embryo has a 60 per cent chance of being in the top half, this embryo has a 13 per cent chance of being in the top 10 per cent —I think that’s really possible,” proclaimed Greely this week. “People say, ‘How can we let this happen?’ I think we will.”
“I think one of the hardest things about this will be all the divorces that come about when she wants embryo number 15 and he wants embryo number 64,” he continued. “I think the decision making will be a real challenge for people. How do you weigh a slightly higher chance of diabetes with slightly lower risk of schizophrenia against better musical ability and a much lower risk of colon cancer? Good luck.”
During the Aspen Ideas Festival, Greely was quick to dismiss concerns over the creation of “super babies,” but he did note that certain parents would attempt to craft the “perfect egg.”
“This is not designer babies or super babies,” the professor claimed. “This is selecting embryos. You take two people, all you can get out of a baby is what those two people have.”
“People, particularly where I live in Silicon Valley, will want to do it to get their perfect egg,” he concluded.
Charlie Nash is a reporter for Breitbart Tech. You can follow him on Twitter @MrNashington or like his page at Facebook.
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