Ana Redmond launched into a technology career for an exciting challenge and a chance to change the world. She was well-equipped to succeed too: An ambitious math and science wiz, she could code faster, with fewer errors, than anyone she knew.
reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes
extinct
they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest
of the human race.
These engineered human beings may be happy
in such
a society, but they will most certainly not be free. They will have been
reduced to the status of domestic animals.