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No spoilers, but I used to think, along the lines of Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that Brave New World wound up being the more accurate picture of future society than 1984, despite being less well-known and referenced in cultural consciousness.

Unfortunately, it seems like the former may be enabling the latter, so we may end up with a “porque no los dos” situation.

Actually.. not much. Education is taken care of. Gestation is taken care of. You grow up your young with a company instead of a family, if you want to be involved at all. All things that could go wrong, already sort of have over the last ten years and have been accordingly ironed out of humanity.

Sexuality as couples is already gone for large parts of the yoynger population. Culturally the family is as good as gone. Woman have kicked themselves enthusiastically out of all roles the species had to offer, except for that of work drone and that is going obsolete right now. They and their allies (almost all of those allies cheer on the ideas of incubators) wildly detest the idea of going back to traditional roles. Society has to come from somewhere and this is somewhere.. nothing of value was lost..

Without spoiling anything, I wouldn’t say anything “goes wrong” in Brave New World, at least as far as procreation is concerned.

Why? The current method is cheap.

We already have Soylent

Creating a food system that is more cruel to animals than what we already have is a very high bar. Not that I doubt we can clear it.

Is that a problem?

They're a foundation working on "de extinction". They want to hatch dodos.

A velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.

Maybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food.

Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.

  requires real hen for fertilization and laying

The Wikipedia article suggests they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo

Baby steps:)

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could…

You could RTFA and find out.

(26 different artificial eggs. The artificial egg is the main development. Basically they take a chicken embryo (by cracking open a fertilized egg) and allow it to develop inside the artificial egg, and from which it can eventually be "hatched". Other methods for growing chickens from embryos outside their eggs have not had very high success rates.)

It says at the bottom:

> This story is based on original reporting by Christina Larson for National Geographic. Read the full feature on National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/artificia...

Press releases are often written for lazy publications to copy and paste.

Also, that is the kind of corporate PR articles that are made to be quasi copy/pasted by journalists.

Eggs are IaC.

For a book/movie with a decent (if optimistic) grasp of genetics, its grasp of chaos theory was utterly ignorant.