GATTACA is here...

[Aegwadar]

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/HomeMortgageSavings/99000-to-see-your-future.aspx

If you have $99k sitting around you can have your genome mapped! Four or so companies offer a full genome map that can reveal your true past of your genetic history, your chances for certain diseases and a host of other services. This looks like GATTACA to me; and they say it will start to become cheaper and more widely available in the near future.

Isn't the future fun!

 

[Squid1361]

AWESOME...
Now I gotta go get a job...
hmmmm...

 

[Shadowlolz]

Better start digging in the couch

 

[Susano]

Pardon my ignorance but whats GATTACA?

 

[Charlie_Brown]

Pardon my ignorance but whats GATTACA?

Gattaca on imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Pardon my ignorance but whats GATTACA?

A film where people are geneticly screened at birth and before to create perfect people. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/plotsummary

Very good film, and GATTACA are all the letters of the human genome, it's clever like that.

We follow a someone who was created the normal way and hasn't got that done, he has big risks of bad stuff happening and we see him try to achieve his ddreams.

 

[black lincon]

Pardon my ignorance but whats GATTACA?

A movie where in the world they lived in everyone was judged based on their genes. the point of the movie was that we weren't determined by our genetics and that doing so was bad so I fail to see how this is a step in the right direction.

 

[Agayek]

Pardon my ignorance but whats GATTACA?

Basically it's a movie where who you are is defined by your genetic code. It rigidly dictates exactly what jobs you can take and when you will die, etc etc.

 

[Skeleon]

It's about a non-optimized person (called an "invalid") who wants to become an astronaut and fakes an optimized identity. It's pretty cool albeit very bleary and a bit slow-paced. But I like that about Gattaca. It grants you the time to think about this near-future dystopia.

 

[Sneakist]

That's really interesting, although I think MSN describing it as "seeing your future" is a bit much.

 

[Exocet]

Pardon my ignorance but whats GATTACA?

It's from a movie set in a future not very far away that deals with genitical ethics.
In the movie,the good jobs are taken by the "superior" genetical elite while the rest of the "natural" born are prone to disease and are doomed to stay lower class,barely even considered citizens.

Ninja'd >.<

 

[the_hessian]

AWESOME...
Now I gotta go get a job...
hmmmm...

I'm with you there...

 

[lozzab]

Well discrimination based on genetics is illegal unless I'm mistaken, so a think we're a fair way from that yet. Besides, we know so little about the majority of the genome it's just a conversation point for the rich at the moment I guess - though I have heard that a new technique they're developing is expected to drop the price massively, like down to £1000 in 10 years or something incredible...

 

[NDWolfwood5268]

Pardon my ignorance but whats GATTACA?

A movie where in the world they lived in everyone was judged based on their genes. the point of the movie was that we weren't determined by our genetics and that doing so was bad so I fail to see how this is a step in the right direction.

I don't know if he was being serious, I took it as sarcasm. I see it as disturbing sort of...

 

[ae86gamer]

All I need now is money and I can get my genome mapped. I better start looking for spare change. But if it turns out to be like GATTACA then we will all be considered invalids.

 

[AkJay]

cool, i like Jude Law, good actor.

 

[NDWolfwood5268]

Well discrimination based on genetics is illegal unless I'm mistaken, so a think we're a fair way from that yet. Besides, we know so little about the majority of the genome it's just a conversation point for the rich at the moment I guess - though I have heard that a new technique they're developing is expected to drop the price massively, like down to £1000 in 10 years or something incredible...

We actually know a lot about the human genome, it's the fine details that elude us. People like to think humans are dumb. Mystery makes it interesting I guess... Truthfully, we know a good amount, and humans do utilize all of their brain, just not at once.

SCIENCE! It works, bitches! http://xkcd.com/54/

 

[Aegwadar]

That's really interesting, although I think MSN describing it as "seeing your future" is a bit much.

Yeah, its the hook to get you too read it. I would say at the most it tells you your best chances of what might happen to your BODY in the future.

 

[Bibliomancer]

Here in the US, they recently passed a law so that people can't be denied work based on genetic profiling. So no Gattaca yet.

 

[Caliostro]

Well... Only 98 999 bucks to go!