evidence: "A single building can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year." This is Ecto Life’s vision for the future of birth, as outlined in a widely covered concept video last December. It boasted of 75 highly-equipped labs, each with 400 "growth pods" – or artificial wombs – that replicate the exact conditions of a uterus. The baby in each pod would receive customized nutrients determined by an artificial intelligence-based system, while parents would be able to track their baby’s growth progress and vital signs from their phones. Except Ecto Life doesn’t exist – yet. [...] AWT envisions a future where technology will render C-sections and premature birth redundant, and solve infertility. As the Ecto Life video progresses, however, the ethics of such a future where babies can be manufactured in laboratories grows murkier. "And if you want your baby to stand out and have a brighter future, our Elite Package offers you the opportunity to genetically engineer the embryo…" the voiceover continues. It says, parents will be able to edit their baby’s traits, customizing everything from their hair color to their height and level of intelligence – thus evoking the same concerns that led to a raging debate on "designer babies" not long ago.