The Third Choice – I think that would be a great name for a book on the subject. The third choice of mankind being taking control of our own evolution: neo-evolution. We will take charge of our own evolution. It is inevitable. Probably, the United States, as it gradually becomes an intellectual and scientific backwater, will pass legislation forbidding that kind of science. In a nation where science is continually overrode by religious zealots challenging evolution or attacked by industry front groups as if scientists were some kind of rationalist cult, you can expect to wind up as thoroughly second rate in the sciences.
But it will be done. it will be a pity that new form of humanity will be Polish, Chinese, Ukranian, but not American. But we can watch and fear as they race past us.
James Pilant
Pilant's Business Ethics Blog 
I think this is a subject I could talk about for days. I read the article and watched the video.
I dont think that stopping human evolution is a possible, or viable, alternative. We are hardwired, on both an individual and population scale, with adaptation mecahnisms. With “change” being the only real constant in nature, the need to adapt will remain, and thus we will always evolve to meet those adaptations, or die.
The idea of genetic modification both scares me and intrigues me. We see all of these wonderful possibilities with it. It could be used to cure countless diseases. What scares me about it is where you have a tool, it will not take much searching to find a person willing to misuse it.
I think, in the end, nature will always win. Even if we chose to genetically modify the population to guide us in a certain evolutionary direction, we would still have to deal with nature and natural evolutionary processes.
I think no one will deny that this is really an interesting point in our history. This is the first time in which the idea of actually controlling ones destiny (so to speak) might be feasible. It’ll be interesting to see how all this plays out.
For me though, I think I would still want nature to select what my child is going to look and be like. Afterall, nature has way more experience at it than we do!
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