Designer babies: Full steam ahead?

Genetically " enhanced " babies, who resist climate change and diseases better: In 2014, British artist Agi Haines presented a collection of such babies as "transfigurations" in the "Interactive Art" category at the Ars Electronica/Linz #https://www.aec.at/festival/de/, life-size, at the Ars Electronica/Linz #https://www.aec.at/festival/de/, thus triggering a silent horror ; also giving her an honorary mention (see #https://archive.aec.at/prix/showmode/48982/); photo below.

Such possibilities emerge five years after this AE competition if one learns the following:Apparently, an unpublished research paper by He Jiankui about the creation of ?Crispr“ babies in China shows proof of attempted gene editing gone awry, writes University of Pennsylvania genetics professor Kiran Musunuru. Antonio Regalado from #mittechnologyreview.com has the story; see #https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614764/chinas-crispr-babies-read-exclusive-excerpts-he-jiankui-paper/

Indeed, the future has already begun.This is what Robert Jungk also called his warning bestseller in 1952... As early as 1962, this futurologist took a sharp stance on the subject of "Applying the marketing strategies of the industrial age to the human body" at the controversial CIBA Symposium; a London conference on the subject of "Man and his Future", which was attended by five Nobel Prize winners #https://de.wikimannia.org/CIBA-Symposium; an illuminating and pessimistic reading. Man does not become wiser.

It will be seen whether China will take the side of nations that deal responsibly an d in international cooperation with the subject of genetic modification or if one day, with increasing climate change, we can see young Chinese with such cooling ribs in Shenzhen or Beijing.