The CBS series21st Centuryaired a program titled , " The Mystery of Life " on February 26 , 1967 . The program look at genetics and the hereafter of humanness .
In thisclip , server Walter Cronkite interviews biologistJames Bonner . Bonner advocates a " large - graduated table syllabus of [ breed ] better the great unwashed , " otherwise known as eugenics . reproduction by committee sounds like scads of playfulness !
The episode can be found in its entireness on the A / V Geeks DVDTwenty - First Century .

Bonner : Each baby , when it ’s born , must donate some of his sexual practice mobile phone , sperm or eggs , and these are put in a deep freeze and just kept . The person leads his life , and dies . And after he ’s all utter and gone , so the heat of love is deal out of the subject , a committee meets and studies his life .
Cronkite : So during his lifespan then , he has n’t had any small fry ?
Bonner : He ’s been sterilise , and has n’t had any children in the normal room . After he ’s dead and run , the committee assemble and brush up his life and ask , ‘ Would we like to have some more the great unwashed like him ? ’ If the answer ’s no they take out his sex cells of the deep frost and hold them away . But if the answer ’s yes then they use him to fertilize eggs likewise pick out on the basis of recapitulation and validation of a person ’s contributions during his lifetime . He just does n’t get to brazenly go out and propagate his own cistron without assure himself and everyone else that they ’re the good possible gene .

See also : Future Shock – Babytorium ( 1972)Instant Baby Machine ( 1930 )
Eugenics
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