Guess what? The future they warned us about in The Matrix is here—and the scientists aren’t even pretending to hide it.
by Michael Stevens 400 words
Three researchers at Stanford—Carsten Charlesworth, Henry Greely, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi—have laid out a blueprint to grow living human bodies without brains. No thought. No awareness. No pain. Just human shells.
Why? To harvest organs.
Using pluripotent stem cells and advancing artificial womb tech, they want to grow “blank” bodies for spare parts. No waiting lists. No messy ethics debates. Just organs on demand.
In their words, this could “rescue people from organ transplant lists” and “reduce the need for animal testing.” They claim it can be done without crossing most people’s ethical lines.
Not all. Just most.
If the outrage stays quiet, the labs stay open.
We’ve already watched mRNA tech fast-tracked. We’ve seen abortion pushed to the moment of birth. We know China harvests organs from imprisoned minorities.
Now, Western scientists want to industrialize the process—legally, efficiently, profitably.
This isn’t healing. It’s manufacturing.
Human life is no longer sacred—it’s being measured in parts and priced by usefulness. Virtue has given way to self-idolatry. Progress is now whatever boosts control, power, and profit.
And if you think this ends with organ harvesting, it won’t. Once we build soulless bodies, we’ll ask if we can program them. Then who owns them? Then who’s next?
We used to ask, “What does it mean to be human?” Now they ask, “What can we use it for?”
When we forget we are made in the image of God, we start remaking others in the image of power.
Psalm 139:13–14 (CSB):
“For it was you who created my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will praise you because I have been remarkably and wondrously made. Your works are wondrous, and I know this very well.”
Sources: — MIT Technology Review, March 2025 — Stanford.edu bioethics publications — News Items by John Ellis