Posted: 5/9/2013 12:19:48 AM EDT
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Excellent film. Watched it again for the umpteenth time. Highly recommended. Excellent commentary on genetics vs. determination. We'll probably see similar one day.
ETA: Uma Thurman! 
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I used to think so. I'm now starting to think that we will soon have the ability to change ourselves into whatever we want. So how you were born or originally looked will no longer matter. I was born a man. they said i could be anything. So i became Michelle Obamas arms. |
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I used to think so. I'm now starting to think that we will soon have the ability to change ourselves into whatever we want. So how you were born or originally looked will no longer matter. I was born a man. they said i could be anything. So i became Michelle Obamas arms. You must have been over 6'7" tall to start. |
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The only reason I watched it the first time- and own it now, is because they used my grandfather's Studebaker Avanti for the main characters car.
There are also several interesting plot developments, but overall the show just does t turn my crank much. The trend towards genetic manipulation and 'editing' is certainly concerning. |
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Probably 10 years ago or so, a coworker told me his story...he was in NASA astronaut training and on one of his physicals they discovered a cardiomyopathy. He had to be washed out of the program.
I invited him over to watch GATTACA, the movie hit pretty close to home. |
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I used to think so. I'm now starting to think that we will soon have the ability to change ourselves into whatever we want. So how you were born or originally looked will no longer matter. Designer people...for better or for worse. Couple it with indefinate lifespans..... GATTACA is a good movie, but it's like a movie made before the atomic age--no it's technically worse. 'The atom' only changed sci-fi, somewhat, from fantasy to reality but genetic discoveries have completely superseded GATTACA's fantasy through a much more fantastic near-tangible leap. Already, just since the movie, obtaining the 'ieal' human through breeding selection is technically passe. The console through which humans are to be designed is installed but the wilderness of switches aren't yet marked. There's work that will be done, that someone will do. Morality will be broken and molded by it. It's coming. The world's fixin' to change big time. |