Genetically modified humans are reality (German) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/bestaetigung-crispr-babys-china-1.4296824 In-Vitro-Gametogenesis enables synthesis of sperm / egg cells from other cells (German) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00129-018-4385-3 Humanoid clones are a reality since 2017 -> Dolly https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/these-monkey-twins-are-first-primate-clones-made-method-developed-dolly Humanity increased fifteen-fold over the last 500 years. Forecasts of how this continues predict most different directions - if we're actually 5 billion more people in 50 years we need strategies, of how to feed all them. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-biology/chapter/human-population-growth/ ![Human population](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images/wp-content/uploads/sites/1842/2017/05/26234618/550px-Population_curve.svg_.png) Research about the CRISPR technology https://prezi.com/view/K8TZAk2hMpWG3IkW10W5 "Researchers Want to Link Your Genes and Income—Should They?" German summary: "In Zukunft werden Arbeitgeber bei Bewerbungen nach einem genetischen Einkommens-Scoring fragen. Krankenversicherungen werden ebenfalls durch die Gene ihrer Kunden Einstufungen vornehmen. Staaten werden für soziale Förderungen die Gene eines Bürgers in Betracht ziehen, um ihn hierdurch qualifizieren oder disqualifizieren zu können" https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-want-to-link-your-genes-and-incomeshould-they "Science Is Getting Us Closer to the End of Infertility" on Wired ![Wired](https://media.wired.com/photos/5aab10902ef59456bdd53093/master/w_1132,c_limit/Fertility_Bio.png) https://www.wired.com/story/reverse-infertility/ There are about 20.000 protein-generating genetic sequences which differentiate from human to human. That is Big Data which AI-researchers are working with, for example at the German Institute of Artificial Intelligence, together with the department of biology at the University of Saarland https://www.dfki.de/web/ https://www.uni-saarland.de/nc/startseite.html Hypothetical- / Art-app designed by Lauren McCarthy to be misstaken with an actual product (went viral) http://pplkpr.com/