Tell me this is not real

economictimes.indiatimes.com... w/96203552.cms?from=mdr

Hashem Al-Ghaili's 'EctoLife' can grow around 30,000 babies yearly because of extensive and groundbreaking scientific research of over 50 years. It is Hashem Al-Ghaili's brainchild, who is a science communicator and biotechnologist from Berlin. His facilities would allow couples to conceive babies and be true biological parents. It is for infertile parents who cannot have their own offspring.

You can use the "Elite Package," which would let you engineer the embryo genetically before they implant it into an artificial womb. You can choose intelligence, height, strength, hair, eye color, etc., and avoid genetic diseases. Hashem says EctoLife is entirely powered by renewable energy and is the first artificial womb facility in the world.

Anybody having flashbacks of The Matrix ?




I know this has not yet been built and is [ so far ] just an idea, designed to help those who can't have children naturally, but this is just friggin' creepy. This is literally a baby factory. I mean, I've read about this in many SciFi books, where you just order what kind of kid you want and go pick them up when they're ready to decant, but I never thought I'd see the day this became a reality. Can you imagine this ? Walk in, donate some sperm and eggs and say "Yeah, just send us an e mail when it's done".

a reply to: DAVID64

Tell me this is not real

Sorry, Hal; I can't do that.

a reply to: DAVID64

What could possibly go wrong?

a reply to: ketsuko


quoting the video...."The Artificial Intelligence based system..."

I saw this earlier and had to pause and think just how reactionary I was going to be.

The entire idea of equating premature infant care with ectogenesis seems a stretch.

Perhaps they will secure funding from the "let's make natural childbirth and uterus' obsolete" crowd.

I am not confident about society using this technology responsibly.

I'm not even sure it can be used responsibly.

I offer an alternate source for those having difficulty with the one you have:
geneticliteracyproject.org...

So who's in charge of the "gain of function" projects? 🐇

Well at the end of the video it says "Concept by: Hashem Al-Ghaili" and the footage looks mostly like CGI so I'm guessing it's some sort of art project. They also don't seem to provide any website link so I doubt it's a real facility. But give it a few decades and something like this will probably be possible. There are a few reasons I don't think pod babies would develop the same as normal babies though.

a reply to: DAVID64

It certainly is a Brave New World that we are living in.

I've always said that we'd eventually see a mixed Orwellian/Huxlien world develop. Unfortunately, it looks as though I was spot-on.

a reply to: DAVID64
I know this is just an idea-but ideas have a way of becoming reality..

Again I ask myself why is it that those who seek to design our future always seem to go for the very worst aspects of dystopian fiction?

Oh well,at least the misandrists will be salivating at the prospect of making men obselete-that is if we can get robots to build the pods of course.

Soon we will be able to get born in a pod,go to work in a flying pod,sit at work in a virtual pod,and then get mandatory euthanised in a government death pod.

Who could possibly complain about such a wonderful natural life?

This story reminded of one name, Khan Noonien Singh.

Gene Roddenberry Was a better fortune teller than Michel de Nostredame.

a reply to: DAVID64

Tell me this is not real

It's not real...yet.

Have you seen the chinese and north korean army, they are all the same height and size.

We aren't that far away if they can do this for premature lambs, it won't be a stretch to grow a baby in the lab and at some point put them in a Shake and Bake bag and a few months later a little bundle of joy.



www.newscientist.com...

Human trial
If the team can get the system working for human infants, it would be useful for only about half of the babies that are born extremely prematurely – those that can be delivered by C-section.

For their human device, Flake’s team hopes to improve the fluid that babies will be bathed in. Amniotic fluid contains nutrients and growth factors, as well as fetal urine. The team plan on adding substances that are known to aid the development of the gut, for instance.

The human device will look different, too. “I don’t want this to be visualised as fetuses hanging on the wall in bags,” says Flake. He says the device will eventually look like an incubator – with a cover and a dark interior. He also plans to make the device “parent-friendly”, allowing parents to communicate sounds to the baby and to see it with a camera.

Marlow says this is an important consideration, as having a premature infant can be extremely distressing for parents.

On the whole, Marlow is optimistic about the device, but shares similar concerns to Turner. “Anything that is more gentle, and interferes in normal development as little as possible, is to be welcomed,” says Marlow. “But we need to keep an eye on the risks.”

They seem to not understand blood types. There is no way they can share the same artificial blood supply to all of them without killing most with just the blood type incompatibilities.

Solar and wind power? A storm can kill them all.

But wait, there's more, an at home kit. I wonder how long before they mix species in a basement lab.

Mermaids, satyrs, centaurs, catgirls? Something like planet of the apes for the worker class.

You can choose intelligence, height, strength, hair, eye color, etc.

What happens when we have a generation where they're all 6'8" (200cm) with 300 IQ? Exceptional is now just average.

Anyway this is the stuff of horror novels and we're making it a reality? Just because we can doesn't mean we should...

a reply to: DAVID64

30,000 babies yearly

that's either slave or military numbers

a reply to: beyondknowledge

oh no

ACTUAL FURRIES

*shudder*

Reminds me of the suneater books particular the first one empire of silence.

Pretty much mankind’s elites controls all the tech that includes gene augmentation. The plebs live short lives in body’s that degrade and are susceptible to illness.

The patrician class are aloud to augment their offspring in line with their social standing. The leader of a province might be aloud to live 200-400 years and have traits abc

A planetary ruler might be aloud to have a life span of 800-1600 years and have traits that would help them keep their power.

The emperor who oversees the entire galactic empire is immortal.

a reply to: DAVID64

Fortunately for civilized society this is real , and has been in progress unbeknownst to the general public ; globally , and successfully for decades .

a reply to: david000

Yeah...gonna need some proof on that.