Is Perfect What we Need

Technology, creativity, and the future

E. O. Milne

For some time now, scientists globally from Japan to America have been working on what they seem to think is one of the greatest breakthroughs of our time.

Something so beautiful that it would allow us to create the things we think of when we dream of the future.

And it would all be capable because we would be – better.

The name for this experiment is C.R.I.S.P.R.

It has been going on since 1987, but now in 2023 scientists are almost certain that they have perfected it. C.R.I.S.P.R is a process where embryos are tampered in the lab to create human organisms that lack faults.

Think of it like a Word document: when the document does not sound the way you want it to be, you cut and change the components of the document until it is exactly the way you want it to be. Now, think that instead of words on a page, it is DNA and cells that can be cut out in a lab and new ones can be put in.

It would mean these embryos could be created to have immaculate features and genes, and have some of the strongest immune systems known to humanity. While so many others have been thinking robots were what the future needed to be ‘cleaner’ others have been thinking that maybe what we need to achieve greatness is to improve our own kind.

Imagine it, a world where you can have no imperfections, you can walk down the street and you cannot find a single person who looks as if they are not having the best time of their life.

It sounds like talk of humans as gods, but is it?

Humans, for as long as we have known, have always had faults that have made them who they are for better and for worse. But without any of these faults would we think the same when it comes to the innovation of our creativity?

An example of this is contemporary art. It is known to be quirky and strange, sometimes the meaning of it is not there yet, something that no one else can think of.

But if we were to be as perfect as the experiments look to be, would we still be able to think individually in our own ways, or would everyone in the world be able to have the same bland ideas?

The Louvre would possibly become a place of lost interest and instead the new way of emotional expression would be through the latest products being manufactured to unlock the key to our future.

While ideas from back to the future and such seem fun and all, would it mean that to be able to complete these tasks we would have to give away the attributes that are associated with our kind to receive it?

Would we be willing to give up what we love now to love the unknown?

Do we really want a homogenised society