Thanks for reading my position statement. My apologies for not reading your posts (at least for not reading them promptly enough).

You say that reproductive technology will result in dependence on machines. Transportation technology has certainly made us dependent on the automobile and the jet plane. But transportation technology has also made it possible for us to travel much farther and faster. I think it was worth it. Treatment of diabetes without any attention to genetic counselling produces a situation in which more and more people depend on the technologies of monitoring blood sugar and injection of insulin. Maybe the diabetes model is closer to what you are talking about. I think it is undesirable to go on producing increasing numbers of diabetics when we are able to avoid that using our knowledge of genetics. And the use of that knowledge would not make people dependent on machines, as diabetics are today. It would result in fewer and fewer and possibly ultimately no diabetics in the population and thus less and less depnedence on the technology of diabetic treatment. There is no reason that I can see why genetic technology could not be used to make humans less and less dependent on artificial treatments. Genetic technology can very likely be used to improve normal reproductive success.

It is very easy to look at a new technology and list the undesirable things that would happen if it were to be widely used. But intelligent use of genetic technology will certainly not produce the undesirable consequences you list. I infer that "accelerating" the rate of change of the human genome is seen by you as undesirable. I don't see why it would necessarily be undesirable. I would agree that accelerating an undesirable change would be undesirable, but accelerating a desirable change would be welcome. And making beneficial changes in the genetic makeup of future generations doesn't really accelerate the rate of change of the human genome. If I make a change in something and then stop making changes in it, there is no acceleration of change.