EctoLife : the world’s first artificial womb facility?
It looks like a scene from The Matrix. Rows upon rows of babies are developing in the ‘world’s first artificial womb facility,’ which can supposedly incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown children per year.
EctoLife, the ‘world’s first artificial womb facility’ is just a concept for now, which offers a way for parents to produce customised babies. The concept is the brainchild of Berlin-based Hashem Al-Ghaili, a producer, filmmaker and science communicator and molecular biologist by trade”, as per his website.
It offers parents to ‘produce’ customised babies with the help of artificial wombs. An ‘Elite Package’ would allow people to choose their baby’s level of intelligence, height, hair, eye colour, physical strength and even skin tone.
Experts believe the technology is not that far-fetched and could become a reality in the future. Al-Ghaili believes that artificial womb facilities could become a reality in 10 years or so if ethical restrictions are removed. “Every single feature mentioned in the concept is 100 per cent science-based and has already been achieved by scientists and engineers”, he said.
He says once ethical constraints are relaxed, people can be willing to adopt the technology in the near future.
What could possibly go wrong?
This is just my opinion.
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