"Designer Babies" Are On The Way

If, over time, the world saw fit and decided that a breakthrough in gene manipulation would allow them to arrange that all new births were to be genius level human beings...And these human beings were nurtured to fully exploit their potential in whatever field that interested them....

One of the first things that would go is drudgery and menial tasks, ditch digging etc.

Super smart people who go into mechanical engineering, software creation (and there will be a lot more that do because that's all their is now in this senario) and quickly accelerate the creation of intelligent machines and robotic servants to do these tasks.

Super smart humans who venture into world leadership and organization would quickly grasp that the world population was way too high and hopefully the smart people they lead would appreciate that and embrace the concepts of having less children because they understand the implications of using the earths resources up at the current rate giving them no time to replenish.

Within a generation or so, with the earths population steady at one billion it could truly be a utopian society. We could all live a pretty good standard of living. and be free of the drudgery of doing menial tasks, free to create, to think, to head out into space.

One thing about that though, would we get bored, would we actually miss going out and chopping wood for a fire, doing the dishes, building a house, making ourselves feel useful and get a sense of accomplishment on that basic level, would it be filtered out by our genius minds?

Interesting, compared with just 120 years ago, domestic appliances, cars and other ways for traveling huge distances, electricity etc has cut dramatically to amount of time we would spend just keeping house. We seem to have kept the long work hours the same though though not quite as long as back then.

For about the same 120 years we have also been doing something we never did before, intensive, collective R & D work in just about every field. That is why everything is constantly modified, improved and upgraded in just about every way you can think of over time.

It may have taken a few geniuses to come up with the principals and base discoveries that are being it all, but now the collective labs having taken their lead are doing it for themselves, not needing geniuses to progress. Getting their slowly, in small increments.

Geniuses do raise the bar though.. They would accelerate learning and make huge jumps and connections far more quickly.