There's very little substance in the summary, hopefully the book is less clickbaity. A few reasons why this should join the "pills will replace food" drama: -

There's very little substance in the summary, hopefully the book is less clickbaity. A few reasons why this should join the "pills will replace food" drama: - a long-term trend in wealthier societies has been to get more control on how they have and raise children. Birth control, education, etc. Less, "more valuable" children. Getting (and losing) a child has more individual and social significance today than in 17th century Europe where 30-50% kids would die before adulthood - another trend is for people to look and welcome ways to bypass biological constraint. Low fertility, age, more recently known genetical defects. - a very recent trend among very select groups has now embraced the idea of "perfect children". Now will this last trend ever go mainstream? Are people willing to _pay_ to "improve" or even only pick some traits of their children? Or will most people have to resort to artificial reproduction because of low fertility and longer life expectancy? And then does any of this mean "the end of sex"? To become a market, artificial reproduction would need to be reliable ("I want my kids to get blue eyes") and confortable. I'm not a specialist, but I get from my 23andme data that so little is determined by our genes. And we're very far from understanding how genes affect each others. Among my friends who resorted to artificial insemination for various reasons, they had sex - a lot. Hormones are here to stay. Humans are complex organisms and this (along with the "uploaded brain" fad) forget about the chemistry that shapes intelligence, behaviors, life. People would couldn't will soon be able to get kids. Some will possibly choose to pick a few traits. Most of the planet is _for many generations_ going to have sex.