Brave New World Born of Genetically Modified Babies

“I think you get into a situation of where some people are genetically enhanced and other people are the regular old variety of human being. And I don’t think that’s a world we want to live in,” Marcy Darnovsky (Rob Stein).
In the 1997 movie Gattaca, there are two classes of people. Those whose genes science has perfected and those who came into the world the old fashioned way. Of course, the genetically designed are the ruling upper class. The outdated, genetically flawed folks are fit only for sweeping up after the perfect.
But in sci-fi as in real life, there are no guarantees of perfection. That’s what Jerome Morrow, who has perfect genes, learns when he is paralyzed. Morrow had attempted suicide after failing, in his own perspective, to measure up. Continue reading “Brave New World Born of Genetically Modified Babies”

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