Re: Damien imagines a dystopia....

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 02:11:37 MST


"john grigg" <starman125@hotmail.com> writes:

> Another plot line would be where a large, space colony bourne religious
> community with advanced nanotech which disallows birth control but allows
> the use of science to cure birth defects. The use of science to raise the
> children in artificial wombs is even widely done but seen as God's way of
> allowing the doctrine to be carried forth. The women wind up having far
> more children then they would have under normal condition.

There is something like it in David Zindell's _Neverness_, although
they go even further to procreate...

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