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Discussion on: Which modern fiction presents the most interesting techno-dystopia?

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

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.