This seems very similar to computer security and privacy concerns. Everyone says "someone should do something about this!" yet very few people, businesses, or

This seems very similar to computer security and privacy concerns. Everyone says "someone should do something about this!" yet very few people, businesses, or governments do anything. After decades of lax security the US gets involved in a war with Russia and now tells business that they better be prepared for being hacked. Right, close all those unknown zero day holes right away! Be prepared to dump your 3rd party software when your vendors get hacked! The author says she suspects there are business and government groups already working on implementations and that this is a worldwide issue, not to be solved by any one country. The chances of getting world agreement on anything seem close to zero. I think she's right and it's going to be a free-for-all scenario. Historically people in China during One-Child sometimes aborted females because everyone wanted their one child to be male. Being able to choose genetic features seems likely to be extremely popular (and will make things like skin color a choice.) On the other hand, do we even really know how genes work? I thought I read that what we thought were transcription boundaries are not actually boundaries at all, so that greatly increases the number of possible interactions with the genome. And the "junk" dna actually does something. Also, a great many traits and diseases seem to be associated with many more than one gene, which implies interactions between genes which also makes figuring out what happens when you alter specific genes much more complex. The case where one gene is tied to one trait seems to be the exception rather than the rule. And then there is the question of the influence of mitochondrial DNA from the mother, and the recent research showing that certain chemicals can determine which organ stem cells will turn into (which genes control those chemicals? What happens if they get altered?) I'm not convinced scientists really know what they are doing here, which likely means some rather bad experimental outcomes. We can't predict what small evolutionary changes in the coronavirus do, and we're going to precisely control the process that makes a human? I don't think so.