Yes, I know what it is about. But what gets me is how incredibly prescient it all is, we're pretty much running headlong into this future without any ethical framework to guide any of it. It's a free-for-all right now, as if the new frontier of the Wild West re-opened. Reminiscent of the early days of the web. But Gattaca seems to be used as a blueprint rather than a warning.
> But Gattaca seems to be used as a blueprint rather than a warning.
There's a founder of a genetic sequencing and embryo selection start up that I talked to who said they were "inspired by Gattaca" and isn't shy about bringing that inspiration up[1] at any opportunity.
Their company's promotional material also isn't shy about selecting embryos for predicted intelligence, height, etc.
I'm on board with the idea that it's going to be difficult to make the opt in on something like this respectful of the actual wishes of the participants, but they are at least partly working in that direction.
No, the horrors of the potential downsides associated with the abuse of that information and the fact that once it is out of the bag you can't put it back in.
It's never about the data itself, it's about what the worst possible groups can do with it given some nation state backing.
