RE: Designer Babies or Create your own child, cure genetic diseases, Cancer...the future? It is close, too close...
I'm not well informed about the technology, but if it's really possible I think "the perfect" world is unachievable goal. I believe this kind of "improvement" will be very expensive, at least at the beginning, but until something could change there will be already at least two society layers. Thus there always will be those who could not use it, at least because it'll be too expensive.
Maybe overall idea is good, but I feel some natural disgust.. :( I think it'll promote people's laziness. It's OK to cure diseases with this thing, even psychological, etc.. But humans are really lazy, so I think it'll be started to use in order for parents not to spend any time educating their kids. Theoretically it's OK till the outcome is fine, but I personally feel it's somewhat wrong... Of course, I may be just not ready for new technologies yet, they do scare me, honestly. :)
Interesting thing you say there is that it will be expensive, well It's not, that's the "problem" and part of it that makes it so revolutionary. But, yeah in some extent new technology is both frightening and exciting.
No, I didn't mean that it will be expensive as such, but my idea was that it will be expensive as a service, because it gives great opportunities, and people will be paying for that.
Also, a possible issue could be that some viruses could be created that will cut out some good parts from genome, something similar to computer viruses - new era in terrorism.
Very interesting points.
This is an idea I never considered about it.... People could in fact do that. The only difficult part is the delivery of required guide and trRNA's.