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Cloudbirths

  • 25-05-2021 8:51pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,292 ✭✭✭


    This will be a thing in years to come.


    Fed up with the pain, danger and hardship of pregnancy couples will outsource reproduction to a company that specialises in it. They'll be located mostly on the outskirts of cities in industrial estates. Banks of glass bowls with foetuses in various stages of development along dark corridors in the basement. A bored technician walks in every now and then to make sure all the wires and tubes are properly attached if an error message shows up in his office.

    Every now and then a foetus will fail and an email full of apologies go out to the customer before another bowl gets primed with some surplus genetic material.

    You might go to Blackrock Clinic and some nice smartly dressed doctor will welcome you and give you nice brochures, you'll have a friendly chat in his office while you finish the Nespresso you got in the lobby and soon after you'll be putting your debit card into their machine to give them about €50,000. 9 months later a nurse hands you a baby whose development you've been closely following by repeatedly pressing F5.

    Then some crowd in Eastern Europe or China will massively undercut them once it becomes commonplace. You'll get a handy USB device sent in the post for collecting and uploading your genetic material to their servers and when the baby is ready they'll deliver it to your door.

    It will be like ordering Printed circuit boards off JLCPCB or Aisler except you won't have to go through the trouble of designing them. Unless you want to.


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