Well, I know that in aerospace simply knowing a thing ~CAN~ be done makes it a million times easier. Some westerner saw the exhaust nozzles on a Sukhoi change shape and saw the plane behave in completely nutty ways at an airshow, and within two years we had the same tech in the USA and the maneuvers being taught in combat flight schools. It also helps to have a government willing to pay literally ~any~ amount of money to beat the "commies".
Now - suppose the mother of your child could take a pill that will guarantee your child will be born with myostatin related hypertrophy, greater lung capacity and a larger heart. What would such a pill do to, say... The Olympics? The child has taken no "performance enhancing substance" and was born that way. The film Gattaca already looked at what such tech would do to employment, health insurance and the economy. But what happens when the genetically engineered child's abilities far exceed regular human ability even if the regular human tries real hard, applies himself, AND even listens to the uplifting music during the training montage?
Now - suppose the mother of your child could take a pill that will guarantee your child will be born with myostatin related hypertrophy, greater lung capacity and a larger heart. What would such a pill do to, say... The Olympics? The child has taken no "performance enhancing substance" and was born that way. The film Gattaca already looked at what such tech would do to employment, health insurance and the economy. But what happens when the genetically engineered child's abilities far exceed regular human ability even if the regular human tries real hard, applies himself, AND even listens to the uplifting music during the training montage?