Artificial Womb Technologies, Robotics, and Longer Work Years

Some science fiction possibilities in the future for helping with the population crisis include the necessary infusion of high-technology to replace human capacities. I could imagine entire societies bound to, at least, partial replacement of human beings with artificial womb technologies.

Let’s propose, as many have, artificial creation of people, which can be mixed in with it, without taboos. The future’ll, probably, be the dirty human future like Blade Runner. Societies machine craft infants for infertile couples or singles who can’t find a partner or to makeup the dying members of society.

The ideas of artificial womb technologies and the taboos associated with a feeling of ick to these technologies isn’t an argument. The scientific prowess will exist in the near future, where human beings can be grown systematically without troubles.

With the growing epidemics of the lack of individuals and workers to replace the infrastructure systems put into place means societies living in these Mediterranean lifestyles are structures to not exist in the future, as they will self-annihilate, or if they arise out of some other societal structure, as an outcrop, then they will merely fade or wane away.

Which leads to the original problem, our imaginings around science fiction will, in fact, come true or become a reality to some degree as these realities of people not replacing themselves becomes more apparent. People arenot commodities, particularly babies.

So, immigration, as we move into the 2030s, 2040s, 2050s, and 2060s, will fail to be a sufficient solution to the lack of people reproducing themselves and raising productive citizens. We may be left with a few solutions: robotics, longer workweeks and workdays, or artificial creation of people.

All three of these seem likely if simply to a minimum degree. Our future of science fiction becoming science fact-ion will become more apparent as more societies become desperate to make up the gap, especially the older who have even more interest in living longer healthfully rather than decrepit and dying.

The other traditional solutions of nuclear religious conservative families is in many contexts becoming less prominent, less powerful, and so less persuasive for citizens, particularly women. Places like wealthy egalitarian societies are closer to manageable population rates. However, the societies have to be wealthy enough for everyone and egalitarian enough to permit laws, policies, and sociocultural changes of this kind.

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