CRISPR and other tools aren’t science fiction anymore. If the wealthy get there first, what happens to everyone else?

  • normalspark@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    The plot of the film Gattaca explores this, the idea of what society looks like when there’s a class of genetically engineered, “superior” people, vs. the naturally born, “inferior” class.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      Tbh, I think GATTACA barely touched the topic. It focussed so much on the brothers’ rivalry that you could strip out the genetic engineering part and it’d barely change the movie