Wired Magazine: The Transhumanist Era Is Almost Here And It's Time To Begin Considering Restricting Human Breeding By Non-Enhanced Inferior Homo Sapiens

Wired Magazine: The Transhumanist Era Is Almost Here And It's Time To Begin Considering Restricting Human Breeding By Non-Enhanced Inferior Homo Sapiens



Given the number of children that starve each day, dwindling planetary resources and the coming transhumanist era, it might be time to consider restricting human breeding. The controversial idea to restrict or control human breeding is not new. In 1980, Hugh LaFollette, Ethics professor at the University of South Florida, wrote a seminal essay on the topic titled Licensing Parents. The transhumanist age -- where radical science and technology will revolutionise the human being and experience -- will eventually bring us indefinite lifespans, cyborgization, cloning, and even ectogenesis, where people use artificial wombs outside of their bodies to raise foetuses. Breeding controls and measures make more sense when you consider that some leading life extensionist scientists believe we will conquer human mortality in the next 20 years. Already, in 2010, scientists had some success with stopping and  reversing ageing in mice. The obvious question is: In this transhumanist future, should everyone still be allowed to have unlimited children whenever they want?

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.  Rev. 9:6