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    1. [DNA] How long will is be before high technology puts us out of business
    2. Sam Sloan via
    3. It is inevitable that at the rate technology is advancing in this area, if id just a question of time before everybody will know who their real parents were, whether they want to or not. It had been suggested that soon every child born will have a full genome scan done at birth. The doctors will be looking for genetic defects but if the husband had been cuckolded the doctors will know right away that he is not the real father even if he suspects nothing. Will this be a good thing?? Not only that but anybody going in for any sort of routine medical checkup will probably have a full genome scan too because the cost will be so low, so anybody who asks will be told right away who their real parents are. This is the future. There is no doubt this will happen. My question is how long will it take for this brave new world to arrive. I would say that within ten years the technology will be so advanced that adoption searches will be obsolete. Just as nowadays the doctor will tell you whether your coming baby will be male or female provided that you ask, at some future date all you have to do is ask and the doctors or medical researchers will be able to tell you who your real parents are or were. How long will this take and will this be a good thing? Sam Sloan

    01/02/2016 12:20:02