>>14357026Not gonna happen, this is retarded.
What's gonna happen is that we're going to create fertility clinics where you can bring sperm and/or eggs and get their genomes modified, then the baby will be grown in a petri dish and given back to you. They already have this service but all they do is screen the zygotes for known diseases. Soon they'll be doing modifications to eliminate diseases, and then they'll be doing designer modifications like super strength, intelligence, height, perfect facial symmetry, high motivational drive, low tendency for addiction, etc. And the cost will go down as this becomes easier and more available for more people.
Eventually, most babies will be born from these clinics, and having babies the old fashioned way will be considered as barbaric as having a home birth and not having your child vaccinated or whatever. Like only crunchy granola hippies will actually have babies from manual sex, and society will look down on them as the old process introduces a ton of unnecessary medical risks to the child. It will probably be made illegal. In any case what's going to happen is that children from the birth centers will stop being produced with sperm and egg. It'll be unnecessary for humans to keep having reproductive parts, since the expectation will be that every generation will come from the clinics. And not having those vestigial reproductive organs will eliminate a lot of potential medical complications, periods for women, the risk of accidental pregnancy from recreational sex, etc.
At this point humans themselves will cease to be a reproductive species, and DNA will no longer be a genome. The new organism will be the reproductive center plus the humans it created, and its genome will be the AI algorithm that constructs humans a certain way. Different brands of reproductive centers will compete with each other for resources by creating humans as a step necessary for their own replication, same way as DNA uses RNA today.
