Dangerous Ideas

This comes in the category of things that we probably shouldn’t be able to do, but now that we can (from the Guardian)…

Prof Nayernia also hopes to create sperm from female embryonic stem cells, and eventually, eggs from stem cells.

If he is successful, the work could give single men and women the possibility of providing both sperm and eggs for embryos - effectively allowing them to mate with themselves. Gay couples would be able to have children which are genetically their own.

Wow. I don’t even know where to start with this. This is still in the nascent stages, but I could see this being applied in the next 20 years or so. It probably seems like a dream to many, and a nightmare to many, also (and there’s probably a lot of overlap in the two camps).

The Internet changed society in ways that it would have been hard to predict twenty years before the Web, but twenty years from now? The human species could be completely changed. Some government, somewhere in the world is going to let this technology be applied. And then we’ll have the same things with humans that we have with GMO crops … there will be cross fertilization ad then … wow, just wow.