XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 17/01/2014 5:24 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Doc O'Leary  wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >>   Robert Bannister  wrote:   
   >>> On 16/01/2014 8:34 am, sna wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> A much more believable future for the work situation would   
   >>>> be full telecommuting where you never actually leave home   
   >>>> at all even for full 'meetings' of lots of people at work etc.   
   >>>   
   >>> This could make human reproduction more difficult.   
   >>   
   >> Or easier, depending on what's happening at home during said meetings.   
   >> :-)   
   >   
   > Or 3D printers that "print" at the cellular / molecular level.  ;-)   
   >   
   > Of course, cloning does away with that whole messy nonsense. You just   
   > pull out a hair or chop off a piece of fingernail, and grow a new kid   
   > ... you could even by-pass the messy baby, toddler stages or the grumpy   
   > teenager phase, and just grow straight to a new adult.  :-)   
   >   
      
   Somehow, it doesn't sound nearly as much fun. Unless, we could stop   
   women from having babies so that sex was purely recreational (hmm,   
   unfortunate word) and babies were only made by cloning. However, isn't   
   the entire sex thing not for our amusement so much as to diversify the   
   gene pool? Cloning would be a backward step from that point of view.   
      
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