Future Robots As Mothers And Fathers Depend On The Future Of Humans

As far-fetched as it may seem today, there are a couple of compelling reasons why some humans may one day be born without either a mother or father as we now know them, and with no other humans around to bring them up. The first is the uninhabitable Earth scenario: doomsday. This is the idea that one day our planet will not be able to support human life. This may be due to catastrophic climate change brought on by a large asteroid or comet impact, a nuclear winter following a global nuclear war or a pandemic so severe that humans do not survive. Whatever the cause of our demise, if humans want to ultimately survive and one day re-emerge, it makes sense to store the building blocks of people – ovum and sperm – ready for a resurrection of the human race once our planet is habitable again. There are already gene banks around the world that have been created to store plant seeds for just this kind of eventuality.