This kind of development would be … strange. The generations of semi-enhanced humans would indeed feel rather strange.
But I have to point out one thing: genes don’t work like that. You don’t have one (or few) gene for height, genes for psychopathy, genes for intelligence, compassion, benevolence, reflectiveness … Each of those groups has more than one single effect. Modifying such genes (or corresponding regulatory regions) have way more than one single effect and the result would be much harder to guess than what our imagination enables us to when we hear “gene-editing”.
I don’t know if that has been pointed out, but it has been done only recently and with moderately bad results …
It could become a thing if every human on the planet wouldn’t go crazy at every mention of “gene editing” (or simply “gene” for that matter, as 80% of americans support the labeling of DNA containing foods …).
This kind of development would be … strange. The generations of semi-enhanced humans would indeed feel rather strange.
But I have to point out one thing: genes don’t work like that. You don’t have one (or few) gene for height, genes for psychopathy, genes for intelligence, compassion, benevolence, reflectiveness … Each of those groups has more than one single effect. Modifying such genes (or corresponding regulatory regions) have way more than one single effect and the result would be much harder to guess than what our imagination enables us to when we hear “gene-editing”.