I wonder if, should the tech to create gamete-less, womb-less embrios becomes available, governments would step in to guarantee population control by birthing and raising these children themselves.
Very Brave-New-Worldly, I know, but if incentives are high enough…
The ethical debats would be galore, from diversity of representation in education and ethnical composition, to necessary genetical diversity, to the ammount of modifications that should be warrented.
I also wonder if should this day come, if birth rates will be treated as a Central Bank’s “interest rate” of sorts, but instead of the price of money, it would be optimized to reflect the price of human lives.
Not really, I think significant increases in life expectancy are unlikely because of inherent tradeoffs.
Keeping the organism coherent requires supression, otherwise the signal eventually diverges into noise, which is why only a tiny, compressed set of instructions is what’s passed forward.
We’re already developing immunte therapies that will help with this, the end of sarcopenia will also afford us more independece much later, but all of our systems eventually fail because of unavoidable thermodynamics