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#EctoLife, the world’s first Artificial Womb Facility, which can incubate up to 30,000 babies a year.

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ItsLateHumpty · 12/12/2022 06:55

This is concept only (I hope!) but I find it interesting the continued drive to divorce the mother-child dyad, and that some of the positive responses don’t seem to think of the massive harms this tech could do vs the very small upsides.

My fear is that even if this is a concept only now, it won’t stay that way because the seed is now planted (262k views) and the future looks terrifying.

(As an aside I notice all the babies are white)

Original tweet from Dev Khanna #CES2023 @ CurieuxExplorer

He has nearly 27k followers and his bio reads:

Digital Storyteller l Reimagining #brand #communication l #Technology Enthusiast l Inquisitive soul l #Metaverse #AR #VR #XR #SDGs #Sustainability #IoT #AI #ML twitter.com/CurieuxExplorer/status/1601487003195174913

The reply comments are interesting.

twitter.com/BowTiedRanger/status/1601687546316328960
“Watch this commercial for an artificial womb facility that aims to grow human babies in a factory.

Aside from assisted suicide, this is the most dystopian thing I’ve seen.”

twitter.com/LittleHardman/status/1601881873059352580
”This is a dystopian nightmare. When’s the asteroid due to hit?”

twitter.com/WassimAlAdel/status/1601931580049690626
”This could actually save so many premature babies if the uterus suddenly fails for any reason. Our firstborn was premature and for several weeks it was touch and go. I found myself wishing for something like this many times. So I say yay for technology”

#EctoLife, the world’s first Artificial Womb Facility, which can incubate up to 30,000 babies a year.
#EctoLife, the world’s first Artificial Womb Facility, which can incubate up to 30,000 babies a year.
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guinnessguzzler · 12/12/2022 07:38

So terrifying. Of course it is incredibly difficult to argue against something that would better support premature babies but the long term implications here are horrific. I hate that society's response to the challenges of motherhood is to try to get rid of it all together. Because in a capitalist patriarchy that is preferable to just changing how society treats women and mothers.

nilsmousehammer · 12/12/2022 07:37

Oh look, Brave New World's happened.

The next extremely expensive facility can be the one that picks up the pieces of all these successfully birthed and fantastically neurologically delayed and emotionally disturbed children and tries somehow to provide therapies (which in the UK are already swamped with years long waiting lists for the children birthed naturally) and find something to do with them once they're too old for school.

Because functionality won't be that high.

Who and how are we going to produce the slave class who are emotionally competent, socially competent, able to meet other people's needs instead of existing in a world of 'ME only, do what I say or I'll hit you', who are going to service all these dysfunctional people and run a country around them, keep services going, that kind of thing?

WeWereInParis · 12/12/2022 07:30

I read a book recently called Sex Robots and Vegan Meat which was about how technology could change four aspects of life (sex, food, birth, and death). It talked about these artificial wombs in the birth section and at the moment they are being developed as a better alternative for extremely premature babies - better replicating the womb to improve outcomes. The book was written a few years ago but at that point I think even the artificial wombs for babies born at 23/24 weeks were more concept than reality. Obviously if they did work, people would want to try and save babies born even earlier. The idea wasn't for big labs though, just that they'd replace incubators in hospitals.

The journalist who wrote the book did look at the idea that they could potentially be used for an entire gestation and that we could do away with pregnancy altogether and just have big baby labs but if I remember correctly the consensus was that that was so so far off the science we have at the moment that it was barely worth talking about.

Toseland · 12/12/2022 07:11

Oh it looks just like The Matrix, what a surprise.

ProserpinaProserpina · 12/12/2022 07:07

That’s fucking horrific.

RambamThankyouMam · 12/12/2022 07:06

It will never happen.

I'm sure all the wealthy billionaire backers of TRA ideology are pouring money into it as the end game in the scheme to replace us, but it's just not biologically feasible.

AsTreesWalking · 12/12/2022 07:06

Huxley was right in so many ways about humanity's peculiar urge to self-destruction.
I very much Hope it will never happen, but people are so very stupid.

MrsJamin · 12/12/2022 07:01

This will never happen. Whoever puts their money behind this might as well throw it away.