Flow Of Wisdom Was Early: Revisiting My 2017 Report on “Designer Babies” and Genetic Modification

In a world where headlines move fast and memory is short, it’s easy to forget who sounded the alarm before a story became mainstream.

But sometimes, the record needs to be set straight.

Back on June 18, 2017, during a live broadcast of Flow Of Wisdom Radio, I broke down a topic that was barely whispered about in public at the time: “designer babies.”

Specifically, I covered a new fertility startup called Darwin Life, founded by Dr. John Zhang, a pioneer pushing the boundaries of reproductive technology. His procedure involved removing the nucleus of a mother’s egg—containing her DNA—and inserting it into a donor egg to prevent hereditary diseases.

In 2017, this was controversial, futuristic, and even labeled by some as a form of genetic modification. But on Flow Of Wisdom, we unpacked it in real time.

I published the follow-up post on June 22, 2017, detailing precisely why this innovation would force society to confront the idea of engineered genetics and customized offspring. Here is the show.

Fast-forward to now.

Years later, the FDA is holding official meetings on this exact procedure—acknowledging not only its viability but its ethical weight. The same fears, possibilities, and debates we explored in 2017 are now headlines in global news outlets.

The timeline speaks for itself:

Flow Of Wisdom: June 18, 2017

Mainstream Coverage & FDA Scrutiny: Years later

This isn’t about being “first for the sake of being first.”

It’s about doing what Flow Of Wisdom has always done—seeing the pattern before the world recognizes it. Connecting dots early. Asking the questions others avoid. And diving into the science, psychology, and technology shaping the future before it reaches the front page.

This topic—designer babies, genetic modification, and reproductive engineering—wasn’t “popular content” in 2017. But it mattered. And it still matters.

As we revisit stories like this, I’ll continue resurfacing old broadcasts to show where we predicted, dissected, and explored issues long before they became mainstream conversations.

Flow Of Wisdom has always been about staying ahead of the curve…

And the curve is finally catching up. Checkout my livestream today (December 2025) discussing this and more.