https://vo.rs/tags/genetics/Latest from the Genetics desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/gattaca-the-quiet-dystopia-that-aged-forward/<p>Most dystopias date badly because they overreach — the future arrives, checks the film against reality, and finds the flying cars missing. <em>Gattaca</em> did the opposite. Andrew Niccol&rsquo;s 1997 debut imagined a near-future society that sorts human beings by their genome, and in the years since it has crept closer to the news rather than further from it. Polygenic embryo screening is a product you can buy. Prospective parents can select among their own fertilised embryos for lower disease risk. The word &ldquo;designer baby&rdquo; has moved from science fiction to the bioethics syllabus. <em>Gattaca</em> aged forward, and that alone would make it worth revisiting. That it is also a beautifully controlled, quietly devastating film is what makes it a small classic.</p>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000