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Imagining People As Products: EctoLife and our Brave New World
The EctoLife artificial womb facility video has taken the internet by storm. The video, produced by science popularizer Hashem Al-Ghaili, shows what may be possible in our near future: baby-making factories where fetuses are grown and hatched instead of birthed from their mother's uteruses. While this is still conceptual, it says quite a bit about the existing trends in reproductive technologies and just how dangerous and inhuman we have become in thinking about reproduction.
In this podcast, Lenny is joined by Patheos author Anthony Costello to discuss how new reproductive technologies, while promising a panacea, have become more of a Pandora's box in presenting new problems and dehumanizing us in the process.
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Imagining People As Products: EctoLife and our Brave New World
The EctoLife artificial womb facility video has taken the internet by storm. The video, produced by science popularizer Hashem Al-Ghaili, shows what may be possible in our near future: baby-making factories where fetuses are grown and hatched instead of birthed from their mother's uteruses. While this is still conceptual, it says quite a bit about the existing trends in reproductive technologies and just how dangerous and inhuman we have become in thinking about reproduction.
In this podcast, Lenny is joined by Patheos author Anthony Costello to discuss how new reproductive technologies, while promising a panacea, have become more of a Pandora's box in presenting new problems and dehumanizing us in the process.

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