The means failed, the agenda did not.
Every day our knowledge of biochemistry grows, as does the technology for controlling it. In 20 years, the computers and machines used to understand and manipulate genes will dwarf those of today both in quality and quantity. It's only a matter of time my friend, and time is on our side.
"And the other thing, because no one has the guts to say it: If we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we? What's wrong with it? Who is telling us not to do it? -- Dr. James Watson
""What IVF does is to bring the embryo out of the darkness of the womb and into the light of the day. And in so doing, IVF provides access to the genetic material within. And it's through the ability to read, alter, and add genes to the embryo, that the full force of IVF will be felt...We now have the power to seize control of our evolutionary destiny...Human evolution will be self-driven." -- Lee Silver, professor of molecular biology, Princeton University
"At every generation, a parent will presumably want to endow his or her child with the newest and the best modifications and improvements that are possible, instead of relying on the chromosome that was given to that person, or the parent, a whole generation ago. So, it'll be important not to have this problem of inheritance." -- John Campbell, professor of neurobiology, UCLA School of Medicine
"Dr. Watson dismissed the slippery-slope argument, the argument some people make that, if we start to do these things, then gradually we will go down to who knows where. It has always seemed to me that either we're already on that slippery slope, and so we might as well forget about it, or that it doesn't exist." -- Gregory Stock, Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at UCLA's Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life