Brave New World

Here is an interesting report about a COVID-related genetic study:

https://theconversation.com/your-genes-could-determine-whether-the-coronavirus-puts-you-in-the-hospital-and-were-starting-to-unravel-which-ones-matter-137145

Eventually all such genetic risks may be uncovered. But what then? Do we engineer our offspring to make them less prone to disease?

Sounds like back to the Aldous Huxley future:

"In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world."

Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

I don't think those incubators will be all that "vast" - there are far too many of us already. And somehow I think Eros will encounter the same barriers it did in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

But that's another subject entirely.