Polyglot, autodidact. OSS author and contributor. Addicted to writing code, seeking my next 'fix'. Love communicating with an audience whose eyes don't glaze over when I get to the 'good parts'.
One of my favorite movies, and even less technologically ambitious than what we are already capable of today. The central premise of Gattaca was basically a version of selective breeding. (Fertilizing a bunch of eggs, select the most preferable combination, throw out the rest.) But today we are technologically capable of more -- editing genes. Here is a positive example rather than a dystopian one, but tools are only as good or bad as the people wielding them.
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Gattaca
We already have people with means giving their kids growth hormone so they don't end up short and doing elective suegeries before adulthood.
If we reach the point where elective genetic editing is a thing, it will become the ultimate status symbol.
One of my favorite movies, and even less technologically ambitious than what we are already capable of today. The central premise of Gattaca was basically a version of selective breeding. (Fertilizing a bunch of eggs, select the most preferable combination, throw out the rest.) But today we are technologically capable of more -- editing genes. Here is a positive example rather than a dystopian one, but tools are only as good or bad as the people wielding them.