Did anyone have a weird 'throwback' feeling seeing this on the front page? (This might not make a lot of sense...) Thinking about Down's syndrome in today's w

Did anyone have a weird 'throwback' feeling seeing this on the front page? (This might not make a lot of sense...) Thinking about Down's syndrome in today's world somehow doesn't 'fit', like existentially and culturally feels like a holdover from another era (except that in reality it's not) Somehow a few days of Dall-E/diffusion posts in a row and it's jarring to 'go back' in time to 80s or whatever of worries about Downs--- rather than mRNA, autism, current medical zeitgeist. stuff like this really makes me think about the twin-nuclei (atom and cell) problem/ idea of Eric Weinstein. It indicates a weird unspoken tension, a tether between the last moments of old world and the first moments of a new world. "The Twin Nuclei Era began in the space of four months in 1952-3 with the first test of the Teller-Ulam fusion device in early November of 1952 followed by the discovery of 3D structure of DNA in late February of 1953." For over 70 years we've already have lived in a world reshaped around the tech of the atom bomb for a while, but because it's been slower going, we still don't know what a world reshaped around the tech of the cell will be. And culturally we've mostly just avoided it like a giant dysfunctional family taboo that makes everyone tense. Barely any of our movies or cultural products have helped reckon with it seriously. Usually cultures grab onto an idea and go through an entire 4 seasons cycle/obsession with it, cross pollinating in multiple genres, recycling tropes, high and low brow versions, etc. But somehow it feels like we jumped to the fun of AI and space instead. One occasional Gattaca or an organ-harvesting clone sci-fi, very very few works of depth. Like genetic engineering of individuals and populations is just too close and real and grimey to handle, too explosive. "Demographics is Destiny" as a saying has been haunting me since I read it, but there's so little to explore /dive into regarding visions of the future, fictional or non-fiction takes. (And hell, I feel we barely have a grip on basic anthropology of how our current society regarding works, power, elites, etc) Everything feels on the cusp of a decade or so (cloning, crispr, ivf, stem cells, demographic planning of sex ratios, aging and healthspan stuff, surrogates, artificial wombs etc), but there's this huge silent inertia tension feeling of researchers working in the shadows before some nation officially shoots the starting gun starts the race and forces every society into a headlong rush towards the biomedical musical chairs/ the next balance of power.