My mother has gray eyes, and so does her two sisters. Her father had gray eyes but my uncles have brown eyes.
One of my cousin (female) who recently had a baby boy has gray eyes and so did my other cousin (male) had a baby girl who has hazel eyes.
My obsession with different colored eyes started when I realised my mother has different color eyes but I don't. Neither does my sister.
And then I came to conclusion that its totally irrelevant but then with some examples it was pretty certain that eye colors may get transferred in cross gender generations.
So even if today someone gave me choice to choose my offsprings eye color, I would take it. No questions asked.
But what if someone asked me to make my kid brilliant as Einstein with gene editing, would I do that?
I am asking all these irrelevant questions because I just finished a 4 part series about genomics and the future of gene technology and it makes me wonder as I lay back and look across the sky , what will be that world when my kids are born.
The series starts with the mention of CRISPER a gene editing technology which can alter your genes with simple procedures and create wondrous results.
I had heard a podcast about this technique just few months back and to be honest it just felt a long gone thing for me.
But as I watch the benefits and horrors this technology showcased in front of us, I am rather confused about my opinion right now.
We see a kid struggling to see, we see him crying because his genetic impaired vision creates great difficulties between his dreams of being an astronaut.
We see another young man who is trying to find a cure to his HIV.
We see couples who are struggling to have kids and the other who just wish to have blue eyes babies together.
We see the actual demonstration of procedures to entirely irradiate an entire species such as mosquitos, rats and mice.
I see a lot of judgement and backlash against the technology which can potentially be threatening to our own species while I feel happy that the kid was genuinely happy that now his dreams were no longer genetically bound .
If I hear and know in and outs of this technology sitting at one end of the world I no longer doubt myself that soon I will be meeting parents who are okay with this stuff used for the benefit of their kids. Couples who wish to make their babies more stronger, capable and healthy.
I also get a strange feeling whether in a world of genetically modifying people, the babies who were born naturally will be treated differently. How will you then decide who wins and who loose in this world because it's everyone who has the same level of opportunity.
I feel whether in attempts to eradicate some species we will walk this slippery slope and end up loosing more than we ought to gain.
In the series there was a line as new Zealand went through a hottest summer in the centuries and that ended up breeding too many rats , which in turn ate the diversed birds such extent that they needed a genetically engineered solution for their problem.
If we look at the world's weather right now, everything seems to be going haywire and I can see that when the rain in my place just doesn't stop even after the mansoon is over.
The hurricanes and so many natural calamities wreck in every single part of the world. If this is to happen due to global warming and climate change then the solutions provided are going to be evolutionary and extreme.
Whenever I would watch any world ending movies or news my father would say he has seen the same thing in his adulthood and it would give me an assurance that I am going to tell the same thing to my kids. But then I wonder does the ending of world ever ends like in movies? Or do we all just push through the worse of it every generation and call it survival...
