Category: Brave New World

A Conversation With Hashem Al-Ghaili of EctoLife

I speak with Hashem Al-Ghaili, founder of EctoLife, a new company that aims to bring the birthing process entirely out of the mother’s womb via an artificial AI-run womb. We address many of the ethical, religious, governmental, and health care-related concerns and objections to this new technology and how it may benefit humanity or be…


EctoLife: Grow Your Own Kid!

EctoLife is a company where you can artificially grow your baby and control its environment outside the womb, even choosing superior genetic features. This futuristic birth process takes all of the human element out of childbirth, as our digital society evolves toward artificial over natural processes. …


EctoLife Promotes Artificially Grown Kids!

EctoLife is a company where you can artificially grow your baby and control its environment outside the womb, even choosing superior genetic features. This futuristic birth process takes all of the human element out of childbirth. …


With ‘Birthing People’ We Approach a ‘Brave New World’

Commentary I am writing on May 9, Mothers’ Day in the United States. I used to look askance at the holiday, not because I have anything against mothers—on the contrary—but because it always seemed like a Hallmark Holiday, something manufactured by corporate interests and glazed in a sugar of sentimentality from which one could free…