Again, I think we're a few generations from effective practical genome management, but I don't think the gene is going back in the bottle.
Haha. I dont think so either, nor should it. Generations is right. 5 generations is 100 yrs.
Perhaps being born with a superior mutant allele will be the new Powerball lottery.
The possibilities stretch as far as the imagination. But I take your point about it becoming an issue of wealth and I agree.
We've always lived with the rich getting richer--can we live with them getting better?
We are already there. I am sure that the Prime Minister enjoys better health care than I do. Even here in the Great White North! Better health care=better health=better.
Everybody mutates or nobody mutates.
I doubt it.