What happens when women no longer have to physically bear children? Who wins? Who loses? Who takes artificial wombs to a far away planet to create a colony of super-beings?
A Womb Away From Home
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[…] replace a good old-fashioned uterus. And this isn’t a sign that we’re getting close to totally artificial gestation. Back in 2014, futurist Zoltan Istvan predicted that “ectogenesis”—a.k.a. gestation […]
[…] replace a good old-fashioned uterus. And this isn’t a sign that we’re getting close to totally artificial gestation. Back in 2014, futurist Zoltan Istvan predicted that “ectogenesis”—a.k.a. gestation […]
[…] replace a good old-fashioned uterus. And this isn’t a sign that we’re getting close to totally artificial gestation. Back in 2014, futurist Zoltan Istvan predicted that “ectogenesis”—a.k.a. gestation […]
[…] A Womb Away From Home (artificial wombs): In October, Dutch researchers were given a $3.22 million grant to develop a prototype device that could eventually lead to an artificial womb. In response, ethicists have been asking questions about, well, the ethics of this whole thing. […]