The artificial womb has arrived

[Brian G Turner]

Ostensibly being developed to save the lives of premature babies, now tested with sheep embryos:

Artificial womb helps premature lamb fetuses grow for 4 weeks

And yet I can't help but think of dystopian futures where humans are grown in artificial sacs...

 

[Overread]

And yet I can't help but think of dystopian futures where humans are grown in artificial sacs...

Years ago I had a lecture at uni on evolution and the human body. It appears that such a future might be required for us as apparently the human head keeps getting bigger when we are born, but the pelvis hasn't followed suit quite the same. It could well be that in the future artificial birth or birth aid might well be the norm!

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Years ago I had a lecture at uni on evolution and the human body. It appears that such a future might be required for us as apparently the human head keeps getting bigger when we are born, but the pelvis hasn't followed suit quite the same. It could well be that in the future artificial birth or birth aid might well be the norm!

There might be another evolution: I had SPD which is when the pelvis starts to loosen and prepare for birth far too early. It's agony, my pelvis twisted and my leg still regularly dislocates 8 years after the last one. You now have me wondering because I come from an abnormally big headed family. I know large men with a smaller hat size than me (I'm 5ft1) - and my eldest and youngest were wearing adult hats from when they were small children. I didn't have difficult labour.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

And yet I can't help but think of dystopian futures where humans are grown in artificial sacs...

Why dystopian? Bujold's been writing about uterine replicators as a way of life for decades.

 

[Parson]

Why dystopian? Bujold's been writing about uterine replicators as a way of life for decades.

Or what about Poul Anderson's UN Man. (Boy, I must have read that novella 50 years ago and more and yet I remembered the name and more than a few details. Pretty good for this Parson. But I had no idea it was a work by Poul Anderson, a really solid S.F. and Fantasy author.)

Un-Man - Wikipedia

 

[J Riff]

This was being tried in the 1950s, it's enough to make ewe wonder.

 

[BAYLOR]

It looks like Brave New World has finally arrived.