Takim Williams
Maybe an exowomb is better than pregnancy
Love this. I agree that we want to find the balance between nature and technology. I kind of find Sophia Barthes' answer to be disingenuous. Like, surely she can find SOMETHING to like in the beautiful future she herself depicted? But it's fashionable to be particularly pessimistic/negative about the future.
I explore the fraught ethics of developing a functional exowomb in a novel I'm serializing here on Substack. The difficulty of developing the tech, including human trials and deadends, within a context that rewards speed to market, is missing from the subgenre as far as I know. It gets gnarly! Check it out: https://takimwilliams.substack.com/p/mother-earth-motherboard-pre-singularity?r=17mz6p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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