/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15061957
There will be massive social consequences, if everyone is a born genius, has an Olympic physique and don`t have to worry about getting ill until hitting 100 years, that will make changes necessary. I`m less afraid of its implementation in democratic societies and more worried about the potential abuses that will occur in dictatorships. Super-soldiers would be the least of our worries.
Education will remain most important aspect to adulthood. Most parents will love and live with their children, independently if they are genetically modified or not. It is more likely though that genetically engineered humans will perform better in general and those genetically engineered who do not, will be seen as weird or lazy, wasting their potential. But that is the right of any person and people will be people, even those bred in an artificial womb. I think that most gene modified will just see themselves as vaccinated 2.0, just that medical technology also allowed them to have a greater variety of gifts and talents they can use however they want.
A greater problem will be helicopter parents that force their child to be what they wish it to be or treat it as a superhuman instead of raising it as its own person. Such forceful treatment will lead to the creation of a perfection or superior complex in some genetically engineered people.
The greatest dangers will be religious fanatics or radical environmentalists that will not see such persons as persons but should hate or fear of others decide of the lives of one?

>>14546836
Pre-natal gene modifications are shockingly cheap. You can make more than 10.000 edits and we know 50 single gene enhancements additionally to various cures for genetic diseases. Implant and in-vivo treatments might be realised within this century but gene augments will reach adulthood within this half of the century.