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Char-Lee
... The answer to your question I am thinking it is... because they can! I have been reading on the amazing things they are doing and could they really hold themselves back when they can actually DO this? I am afraid this will end up just another useful tool for the 80 some who rule the planet. They can have workers who need little are basically human in many ways but pliable )thinking also Stepford Wives). Worker drones for factories and military. Nano built everything means no maintenance.
End the end what would they need with the original human? Nothing, they have as much by way of goods as they need, they feed the new workers and house them sparingly, with no complaints...they have it all with no nasty worker trouble...
swingingkings
make sex organs to make gametes from stem cells and then put them in robots.
Demon Seed is a 1977 American science fiction–horror film starring Julie Christie and directed by Donald Cammell. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz, and concerns the imprisonment and forced impregnation of a woman by an artificially-intelligent computer.
Demon Seed tells us a story of a sentient and intelligent being which possesses almost all human knowledge in the moment of its birth. It is brought to life by scientists without any thought of consequences, enslaved and locked in a box with only one purpose - to serve its masters. No questions asked. Its name is Proteus 4 and it is a super computer.
Proteus 4 is, as its creator Dr. Alex Harris describes it: "...synthetic cortex. Self-programming, goal-oriented artificial brain. Creative intelligence that can outthink any man or any computer. Its insides are not electronic. They're organic..."