Embryo selection is a potential emerging technology and is the subject of several previous Metaculus questions and a notebook.

Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of Singapore, was a big believer in the heritability of intelligence. In his 1983 National Day Rally speech, Lee Kuan Yew warned that the higher fertility among people with a lower education level would lower the population's intelligence. In 2021, Singapore's Ministry of Health approved more services for genetic testing. The Ministry of Health must authorize the practice, and has only authorized it in the case where there is a risk of a genetic disorder. In a 2020 Pew survey, Singaporeans were more open to "changing a baby's characteristics" to improve intelligence than most of the other populations surveyed. Singapore was the first country in the world to approve cultivated meat and it has a developed technology sector.