The artificial-womb revolution is coming – along with the debates it will spark over ethics and even geopolitics

George S. Takach, an expert on technology and the law, is an author of non-fiction books, including his latest, Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle Between China, Russia, and America. Ectogenesis sounds like something from the realm of science fiction. But the concept, which refers to a cluster of biotechnologies that aim to allow human embryos to be gestated and brought to term outside of a uterus - an ectogenesis device (EGD) is effectively an artificial womb - is closer to reality than you think. In 1996, researchers in Japan were able to put goat fetuses in…