I currently have two fictional settings in development along these lines (by which I mean I may get round to writing stories in them someday, and am having fun playing with the ideas).
One is a supers setting, in which a rogue scientist has used the CRISPR/CAS9 gene-modifying technique in scientifically (more-or-less) credible ways to create babies with superpowers. She’s discovered and shut down, but now the government has these babies. They can’t just kill them, and… it would be kind of a waste. How about raising them to be loyal?
No way that could go wrong.
The other setting is a mid-future one, where the answer to “should we do these things?” has become “no” in a post-capitalist society that’s turned away from constant change in favour of the New Stability. Before they reached that point, though, there was a lot of biotinkering, and the results are still around. People just don’t think about them much (like we don’t think about the social and technological changes brought about by industrialism, because we grew up with them).
Originally shared by Eduardo Suastegui
We Can Edit Genomes, Create Synthetic Life, and Remake the World. But Should We?
http://www.popsci.com/we-can-edit-genomes-create-synthetic-life-and-remake-world-but-should-we
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