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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 22, 2022 17:22:41 GMT
Human Population And A Technology Innovation To Blow Your Mind
Cindy Gordon Contributor
CEO, Innovation Leader Passionate about Modernizing via AI
Do you recall in late 2021, Elon Musk tweeted his fears about the end of humanity. “We should be much more worried about population collapse. If there aren’t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won’t be enough for M
There is a great deal of truth in Musk’s statement, and I wonder how many board of directors and CEOs are focusing harder on recruiting immigrants, putting in place innovative fertility benefit programs, or investing in the next frontier of technology innovations that will advance human population production in ways only medical technology fused with advanced analytics and AI can achieve.
Did you know that until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, global population grew very slowly?
However, the growth rate accelerated to 2.09% during the 1967–1969 period, but since then, due to the worldwide collapse of the fertility rate, it has declined to 1.05% as of 2020. This translates to a global population increase from 1 billion in 1800 to an estimated 8 billion as of 2022.
We are fast approaching what Hans Rosling called the ‘peak child,” a moment in history when the population stops increasing. Since 1950, the total number of children younger than 15 years of age has increased rapidly, from 0.87 billion children to around 2 billion today. Without access to youth to operate our global supply chains, we could face even greater challenges that global warming - not having enough labour capacity to fuel the world’s economy.
What is the implication for board directors looking ahead and investors?First, increasing investments in fertility treatments and support benefits is important, as well as funding innovations that can challenge current birthing methods and create an artificial womb. In 2017, scientists created a “BioBag” that functioned as an artificial womb, and they used it to grow a baby lamb. Now, a new concept has been unveiled showing how the same could be done for humans. ![[cheers]](//storage.proboards.com/7182076/images/engyBVslEdpmpmdnBwZQ.gif) In recent footage, Hashem Al-Ghaili shows what childbirth might look like tomorrow. This is a startling glimpse into what is 100% feasible, and already Elon Musk has affirmed that EctoLife is viable and likely needed. Meet Ectolife, the world’s first artificial womb facility, EctoLife, will be able to grow 30,000 babies a year. It's based on over 50 years of groundbreaking scientific research conducted by researchers worldwide. Watch the video below and somehow life will never be the same. It also opens up debates from ethicists on what is a human if manufactured like a chip in a research laboratory?
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Post by merh on Dec 24, 2022 1:41:29 GMT
Then abortion won't matter, right?
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Post by merh on Dec 24, 2022 1:44:34 GMT
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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 24, 2022 2:27:51 GMT
Then abortion won't matter, right?
Then that legal fight will begin where men may want to claim what's 50% theirs.
I see it getting messy
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Post by merh on Dec 27, 2022 4:54:23 GMT
Then abortion won't matter, right? Then that legal fight will begin where men may want to claim what's 50% theirs.
I see it getting messy
Guys gonna raise those kids? Most guys don't want the job of actually being a father. They want to sire offspring. Kids are hard. Frustrating I always said I loved my kid, but my kid could make a Saint scream. I told that to a mom in a store dealing with a 3 yr old & she smiled & agreed. |
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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 27, 2022 5:12:37 GMT
Then that legal fight will begin where men may want to claim what's 50% theirs.
I see it getting messy
Guys gonna raise those kids? Most guys don't want the job of actually being a father. They want to sire offspring. Kids are hard. Frustrating I always said I loved my kid, but my kid could make a Saint scream. I told that to a mom in a store dealing with a 3 yr old & she smiled & agreed.
You big Sexist!  You claiming it'd never happen? Not even for spite? or to make someone their Sugar Mama?
No disagreement there. Moms have it tougher than Dads.
One of the most nauseating things I've heard over the years though......the line "I'd do anything for my kids" ![[rolleye1]](//storage.proboards.com/7182076/images/MTjbungPBOzv0BKQvdPJ.gif) When it's so clearly not the case. |
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Post by merh on Dec 29, 2022 17:28:57 GMT
Guys gonna raise those kids? Most guys don't want the job of actually being a father. They want to sire offspring. Kids are hard. Frustrating I always said I loved my kid, but my kid could make a Saint scream. I told that to a mom in a store dealing with a 3 yr old & she smiled & agreed.
You big Sexist! You claiming it'd never happen? Not even for spite? or to make someone their Sugar Mama?
No disagreement there. Moms have it tougher than Dads.
One of the most nauseating things I've heard over the years though......the line "I'd do anything for my kids" When it's so clearly not the case. What do you mean? That moms won't do whatever for the kids? |
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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 30, 2022 2:23:47 GMT
You big Sexist! You claiming it'd never happen? Not even for spite? or to make someone their Sugar Mama?
No disagreement there. Moms have it tougher than Dads.
One of the most nauseating things I've heard over the years though......the line "I'd do anything for my kids" When it's so clearly not the case. What do you mean? That moms won't do whatever for the kids?
That's exactly what I mean. Moms & Dads.
Many talk a good show and use all the cliches........but when it comes down to it? Nope, just Rinse & Repeat for the most part.
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Post by merh on Jan 2, 2023 22:26:59 GMT
What do you mean? That moms won't do whatever for the kids?
That's exactly what I mean. Moms & Dads.
Many talk a good show and use all the cliches........but when it comes down to it? Nope, just Rinse & Repeat for the most part.
You don't have kids |
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 2, 2023 23:18:46 GMT
That's exactly what I mean. Moms & Dads.
Many talk a good show and use all the cliches........but when it comes down to it? Nope, just Rinse & Repeat for the most part.
You don't have kids
Choices made.
I do get to live vicariously thru others though
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Post by merh on Jan 6, 2023 15:01:56 GMT
Choices made.
I do get to live vicariously thru others though
But they aren't yours. You don't have to make choices for them |
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 6, 2023 15:08:28 GMT
Choices made.
I do get to live vicariously thru others though
But they aren't yours. You don't have to make choices for them
is this one of those "Since you don't have a vagina......you couldn't possibly understand." kinda things?
I don't have kids........but I was one once........ I may still be one
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Post by gardengirl1953 on Jan 6, 2023 18:17:00 GMT
But they aren't yours. You don't have to make choices for them
is this one of those "Since you don't have a vagina......you couldn't possibly understand." kinda things?
I don't have kids........but I was one once........ I may still be one
I am a female, too, and I never had kids because I didn't want that responsibility - to make choices for them. And I had a poor terrible role model. I figured 'do no harm' was the most important thing. And I have never regretted my decision. I didn't pass down the family dysfunction. That being said, back to the subject... Who is going to raise those biobag babies, all 30,000 of them? And how will they be raised? They don't automatically turn into productive, well-balanced adult human beings. And how do we feed them all, including the ones in third world countries that are already here? Health care, education, etc. And what will an increase in population do to the escalating global climate change? |
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Post by merh on Jan 9, 2023 23:22:49 GMT
But they aren't yours. You don't have to make choices for them
is this one of those "Since you don't have a vagina......you couldn't possibly understand." kinda things?
I don't have kids........but I was one once........ I may still be one
No. This is a parent willing to die to save their kid sort of thing. Do you remember such a feeling when you were a kid? Do you feel that living vicariously through other people with kids? |
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 10, 2023 2:34:04 GMT
is this one of those "Since you don't have a vagina......you couldn't possibly understand." kinda things?
I don't have kids........but I was one once........ I may still be one
No. This is a parent willing to die to save their kid sort of thing. Do you remember such a feeling when you were a kid? Do you feel that living vicariously through other people with kids?
I call BS on that kinda talk...............many parents won't stop smoking, drinking, drugging, wasting resources in order to provide a better more stable life for their kids. But they'll die for them? pffft
What I feel for a few parents these days is the deep disappointment they feel when their kids refuse to acknowledge their love and caring and continue to be destructive to themselves and others.
I also recently felt the huge loss that death brings for one set of parents.
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Post by permutojoe on Feb 2, 2023 17:06:39 GMT
Artificial womb???  |
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![[cheers]](http://storage.proboards.com/7182076/images/engyBVslEdpmpmdnBwZQ.gif)
You claiming it'd never happen? Not even for spite? or to make someone their Sugar Mama?![[rolleye1]](http://storage.proboards.com/7182076/images/MTjbungPBOzv0BKQvdPJ.gif)
When it's so clearly not the case.
