By the end of this century, people will be able to 3D bio print their own, and biological, human offspring. And, in lack of a partner, individuals will be able to pick the other 50% of their offspring’s genetic makeup.
Full reproductive bioprinting would likely remain a marginal consumer technology, affordable only by the super-rich. However, it might become a useful tool for offworld colonization.
This issue inevitably brings to mind the numerous cloning scenarios depicted in films. I believe that 3D printing body parts or organs, much like the replicants in *Blade Runner*, is a more achievable goal.
Personal perspective: Such high-end, personalized customization services are an inevitable trend. Even with today's stringent ethical scrutiny, the advancement of science and the human desire for individuality are hard to suppress. Several research teams, including my own, have already begun experimenting with creating gonadal organoids in vitro to produce gametes. The era of customized human clones may arrive sooner than we think.
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