It depends on the intent of the user. In an age when technology feels few restraints, science has been given a new tool with which to perform miracles. Before moving forward with no firm ethical guidelines, we should revisit Aldous Huxley's classic 1932 novel Brave New World. In it Huxley visualizes a planet without moral controls, presided over by a single world government. Designer humans are created in laboratories to fit the needs of a society whose highest goals are utilitarianism and happiness, which is the ultimate objective of humanity. ''World Controllers,'' as Huxley calls the authority, suppress individual initiative in favor of uniformity.
Family is gone, and so is any sense of spirituality.
Only carnal pleasure is pursued, and any rituals must be orgiastic in nature. Ford has been replaced by the Dow Jones Industrial Average as our contemporary idol, but drugs and uncontrolled sex are still with us. Predestinators'' decide the future function of each embryo within society, and each is assigned a job. In his follow-up work, Brave New World Revisited, Huxley said the only way to create a permanently stable society is for a totalitarian regime to exercise absolute power. Community is established by dividing the population into segments in which the Alphas function as intellectual superiors, and another caste, called ''Epsilons,'' performs menial labor.