One of the biggest challenges today is the aging population caused by the low birth rates and the fact that it is now impossible to start a family.
And I think one of the “solutions” is to create a technology that creates humans (e.g. artificial uteruses) but also cares for them until adulthood, which will be more complex.
Imagine, an artificial machine that creates human being X and then a technology that develops him until he is an adult and autonomous.
Another solution is to create mega centers to care for humans with human labor, but this is also difficult and unlikely.
A child is something that needs to be taken care of and it’s not easy to create a technology that takes care of them until they’re adults.
Do you think this is possible and could it be applied in the future?
I think people are too adverse to this, even if it is technologically possible, because having natural parents and being born through a natural way is virtually a right.
It is emotionally traumatic for people to grow up without parents (whether adopted or not), so I do not see it as a choice people will be ready to make.
Instead I think they will move towards incentivizing and rewarding natural birth & childrearing.
But it’s a good discussion topic, yes indeed.
