Or maybe they can synthesise eggs, but not the ancestral fertilising sperm. Synthetic human - synthetic human love is doomed.george moromisato wrote:You might be proposing something different: the reproduction itself is "assisted". In other words, two of your synthetic humans cannot reproduce--they need some technological assistance. That is definitely an interesting concept.
What I mean by "synthetic" is an egg built in a lab from the DNA chemicals up. The mother would be the futuristic equivalent of your HP printer, and when fertilised could be carried to term either in a human woman via in-vitro fertilisation, or using artificial womb technology.