EctoLife: An actual company or a spoof?
"The word's first artificial womb facility"
I am undecided but leaning toward “spoof.”
There is no doubt that the horrible concept of “farming” humans is in existence (see Igor Chudov’s post, for example)—but regardless of the ambition, the technology is not there. So, as of this second, I believe that the people behind this promo campaign are either a Theranos operation trying to milk investors for money, or an “entertainment” product launch of some sort, albeit possibly inspired by DARPA, to kill two birds with one stone—as, from the perspective of DARPA, it doesn’t hurt to start priming people for the horrible concept.
A few lazy searches seem to lead to Hashem Al-Ghaili, so I am thinking that most likely, it is his film promo and not an actual artificial womb facility to freak out about.
Thoughts welcome.
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I saw a few people share this promo as an alarming development but there are no references to it outside of a few well-produced videos and maybe two or three websites, mostly linked to the same film producer. No news stories proper, either. So it does look like a well-funded art launch.
I tend to agree with you that it likely is an aspirational video.
But there is a lot of activity in this direction, for example:
Human Embryos WITHOUT HEADS to be grown in artificial wombs.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/human-embryos-without-heads-to-be
This "growing designer embryos" idea has obvious military applications also: grow fearless, strong soldiers with identical blood type and organs