4 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Inside Silicon Valley's Obsession With High-IQ Babies
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Parents are paying up to $50,000 for new genetic-testing services that include promises to screen embryos for IQ. Professional matchmakers are setting up tech execs with brilliant partners, partly to get brilliant offspring. Tech futurists are urging the intellectually gifted to multiply.