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We're fairly close to an artificial womb

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-50056405

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020969/mouse-em...

And I agree with you we "don't need men"; I'm just pointing out a litany of implications.

The first one is for a better incubator for premature babies. The second is in mice and doesnt sound particularly close, as they still required pregnant mice and the embryos die after a certain point because of lack of placenta. Neither of these seems very close to replacing the need for women, but maybe will be closer after 10 more years?

In 2017 they were growing sheep in one for 4 months

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112

I think it’s relatively close, sure maybe 10 years, I’m not sure exactly. My point, was that this technology is going down this path and theoretically, pretty dangerous

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