ABSTRACT
At the end of a wide-ranging canvas like this the reader might expect some grand predictions. And that is probably what you would get if you asked a practitioner in biogenetic research: a future free from learning disabilities, as well as from the people with them. Given their wide-ranging and ill-defined scope, this seems unlikely. Moreover, the prospect is hindered by fellow practitioners in the field of medicine and biotechnology who rescue increasingly early-term foetuses with disabilities more significant than those eliminated by pre-natal testing. We have seen the future and it does not work. At least, it is not perfection or cyborgs; it is an ordinary mess, just like the present and the past.
