Matrix Reloaded? The World’s First Artificial Baby Farm

We all hopefully know the Matrix. Neo takes the red pill, then wakes up with a tube down his throat, with wires along his limbs and spine, his body basically a battery. He is in a massive factory, people growing in pods sticking out of massive towers that seem to stretch for miles, food for a machine race that’s taken over the world.

Rewind to 1932. Aldous Huxley’s prescient book “Brave New World” describes a society where humans are grown in a place called the Central Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Developing embryos are thrown into a caste system from the start – predetermined to be intellectual Alphas or more subservient Betas, all the way down to Epsilons who do grunt work. Lower castes are deprived of oxygen to make sure they’re not too intelligent and exposed to various toxic chemicals to prepare them for lives of mining.

These pictures of future dystopia are bleak, but they may not be that far away.

Today, we’re exploring the world’s first baby farm. And the pros and cons behind a controversial proposal.