[balrog666]

Bingo. I'll tell you what we will be in a few hundred years... Dumber.

I will have to disagree with you on this one. With the coming genetic revolution, what well-off and well-meaning parents won't buy their embyonic children an intellectual upgrade, an enhanced immune system, stunningly good looks, and/or eliminate some recessive errors? They might even buy a fix for that vitamin-C genetic error and save money on children's vitamins (or would that make us more like monkeys instead of chimpanzees and apes). We might even get to the point where we can design out children's genetic code completely although I'm sure the the government will step in at some point and mandate some changes and prohibit others (not that anyone will pay attention to that).

[Doctor Stochastic]

Could we encode the National ID Card in an embryo's DNA?

[Poser]

With the coming genetic revolution, what well-off and well-meaning parents won't buy their embyonic children an intellectual upgrade, an enhanced immune system, stunningly good looks, and/or eliminate some recessive errors?

That's an interesting theory, but I feel that for the forseeable future, those who can't afford selective gene therepy far outnumber those who can. Additionally, they are breeding at a much higher rate than those who might use that service.

I predict that it will be a darned long time before we have the technology to make changes of the order of magnitude necessary to alter the downward trends of the present day.

That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.