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The New Eugenics: Why Designer Babies Are Closer Than We Admit

Par : Rowan S. Halberg
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  • FormatePub
  • ISBN8232976811
  • EAN9798232976811
  • Date de parution06/01/2026
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  • ÉditeurDraft2Digital

Résumé

The New Eugenics: Why Designer Babies Are Closer Than We AdmitThe 20th century's darkest dream-controlling human heredity-is no longer the work of state-mandated programs. It has returned as a luxury consumer service. In The New Eugenics, Rowan S. Halberg reveals how the quest for "better breeding" has been rebranded as empowerment, wellness, and parental choice. From the venture-backed labs of Silicon Valley to high-end fertility clinics, we are no longer merely correcting diseases; we are marketizing birth itself.
Through CRISPR, polygenic risk scores, and AI-driven selection, a new stratification is forming: a biological class system where wealth determines the genetic destiny and "optimized" potential of the next generation. Moving with the analytical sweep of Sapiens and the moral urgency of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Halberg takes us inside a world where "imperfection" is increasingly framed as a defect to be deleted.
The book explores the "Ethical Mirage" of free choice, arguing that when society pressures parents to choose only the "best" traits, the market creates a "tyranny of love" more pervasive than any coercive regime. By examining the global race for genetic supremacy-from China's unregulated experiments to the Silicon Valley transhumanist movement-this investigation exposes how we are quietly erasing human diversity in the name of progress.
This is not just a book about biotechnology; it is a profound inquiry into what it means to be human in an age of total prediction. Halberg challenges us to confront the "Mirror Question": When we gain the power to write our own DNA, what happens to the accidental, the diverse, and the very soul of humanity? The New Eugenics is a vivid, morally unsettling, and essential roadmap for a future that is closer than we admit.
It is a call to recognize that in an era of mandatory optimization, our imperfections may be our last remaining act of rebellion.