For a long time, people have been looking for ways to produce a better generation. Many families want to have the next one be better in many ways. Usually, this is done by some having marriages arranged between families. Now in some ways, this can be produced through designer babies, and some families are looking for ways how to produce super geniuses.
There are people who would want their children to excel in education. There is much pride in parents who see their children do very well in school. Competition usually starts in schools as children try to vie for academic excellence. This has driven some people to find ways put the competition even higher, by trying to make super geniuses.
Having designer babies would be one way to do that. With genetic manipulation, slowly having the preferred offspring could be achieved. There is a question of ethics about this, though, and whether it would be good for society as a whole.
Michigan State University Professor Stephen Hsu said that within the next five to ten years, scientists would be able to do just that: map out and manipulate the 10,000 genes that make geniuses, as The Age reports. This can potentially have people choose what intelligence level their children will have.
Having designer babies might have some advantages, such as having children that can have a resistance or even immunity from certain diseases. This might be possible now with a tool called CRISPR/Cas9. This is used to move genes around, and it is very much real, according to SingularityHub.
CRISPR is being used to alter DNA by biologists. This is a powerful technology that could redefine how humans are made. Dr. Hsu that the future for designer babies is now much closer to reality than ever. Fears of ethics, as well as a society that might be ruled by the genetically endowed, come to mind with such things, but Dr. Hsu is confident about it.
He said that a world that has higher intelligence could have more people that can think more logically and rationally. A much orderly society could possibly be made. Designer babies would have more people that could possibly be much healthier, as such could be produced with fewer genetic defects.
The issue about ethics and having a stratified society would be there as discussions about designer babies go on. People will be there to know how to produce super geniuses and babies that have fewer diseases, all for a much better family. Such concerns are there, as in the case of the report that obesity is common among teens with autism.
