Future Americans may be the offspring of disabled or even long-dead fathers who foresightedly left their "germ cells" deep-frozen in an underground bank. Future parents may be able to leaf through a germ-cell catalogue and pick the father of their next child on the basis of "personifications of their own ideals—the generally admired primary virtues of high character, keen all-round intelligence, and sound physique," and such traits as "a joyful disposition, musical proclivities, aptness at repartee, rapid calculation, courage or endurance."
This is no Brave New World deliberately presented as a nightmare by a novelist, but the proposal outlined last week in...
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