Unfortunately, for our purposes it kinda is. There are 2 issues:
Most people don’t have diseases that can be cured or prevented this way
CRISPR is actually quite limited, and in particular the requirement that it only affects your children basically makes it a dealbreaker for human genetic engineering, especially if you’re trying to make superpowered people.
Genetic engineering for humans needs to be both seriously better and they need to be able to edit the somatic cells as well as the gametes cells, or it doesn’t matter.
Unfortunately, for our purposes it kinda is. There are 2 issues:
Most people don’t have diseases that can be cured or prevented this way
CRISPR is actually quite limited, and in particular the requirement that it only affects your children basically makes it a dealbreaker for human genetic engineering, especially if you’re trying to make superpowered people.
Genetic engineering for humans needs to be both seriously better and they need to be able to edit the somatic cells as well as the gametes cells, or it doesn’t matter.