Promise In Brave New World

A Brave New World published in 1932 by Aldous Huxley was about a utopian society in which people were placed in castes because of how their embryos were modified. Little did the author know less than a century later the idea of “designer babies” might be a reality. Designer babies are very similar to Huxley’s idea; a person could be genetically altered before they were born. Unlike Huxley’s book, in which embryos were genetically modified due to government industrial control, designer babies’ destinies are determined by parental control. Although, gene alteration can prevent genetic diseases, predetermining genetic outcomes should be illegal because of its negative effects on society; the effect genes have on each other, and the underwhelming success rate.

Could you imagine having your life set out for you and predetermined and birth, well that is exactly what Niccol, the director of this film visually exhibited. There is a robust fixation on the two terms valid and invalid. In the first seconds of your life, as soon as you take your first breath, you are defined and it is claimed that these characteristics are unalterable. This is the view that society has taken on to generate an idealistic and nearly unflawed society. “Your genetics are your resume” these words portray

Since the beginning of the science and technology era, the impact of technology on humanity and society has been growing. New technologies are also emerging, which means that we should be responsible for what we are developing. Therefore, when we develop a new technology, we should respect ethics and take care of all the damage caused.

Genetic manipulation has become so affordable as portrayed in Gattaca, that only the lower class, poor people do not make use of it. The humanity in Gattaca has become so focused on the freeing of defects with manipulation, that anyone not engineered is labeled “invalid”.

The film GATTACA and the short story, “Nine Lives,” exemplifies the ethics of altering human life at the genetic level, through techniques of genetic engineering. Throughout GATTACA, the ability to create improved, even superior forms of human life as a positive development through eugenics is shown as well as arousing questions about the moral implications of such engineering. The main protagonist in GATTACA, Vincent Freeman, battles with the discrimination of being an “invalid” in a world of “valids” and comes to realize that he is not an inferior being in the midst of an altered humanity. In “Nine Lives,” a lone survivor of the ten genetically engineered clones of John Chow struggle come to understand itself in relation to unaltered humanity and its individuality for the first time in its life. A dystopian society is produced when unaltered humans and genetically engineered beings coexist and interact with one another due to nefarious social practices such filtering menial jobs only to “invalids” in GATTACA and the emphasis in the value of clones and their worth to society as collective work group rather than focusing on each individual’s contribution to society. The film GATTACA exhibits the adverse nature of eugenics while “Nine Lives” stresses the importance of individualism instead of collectivism and fend off the need to be reliant on others to feel welcomed in society.

American history retells World War II (WWII) stories about heroes, and their contribution to the success in ending the conflict between Japan and the United States (U.S.). The U.S. Military’s attempt to seize key islands in the South Pacific seem futile as Japanese Imperial Intelligence Teams (JIIT) monitored U.S. communications systems. Messages intercepted by the JITT compromised U.S. Military synchronization activities, putting their efforts and the lives of American Soldier’s at risk. The Navajo Code Talker program is the U.S. Marine Corps’ solution to secure communications.

The film Gattaca, presents a story centered on the future prospects of genetic engineering and its controversial affects on human society. The film depicts a future in which wealthy families can create perfected children, a factor that has divided Gattaca’s society into different classes based on genetic traits. Vincent was one of the last “natural” born individuals. With all of his defects he carried a high probability he would not survive beyond thirty years. Vincent realizes that he must cheat the system if he is to accomplish his dream.

An individual's aspirations arise and need commitment for them to become achieved. The movie Gattaca explains how a man named Vincent Freeman wants to travel outer space. This became difficult for him because the society criticizes his genetic makeup. His less than suitable heart condition makes the work field limit him to lower class jobs because they do not believe he is mentally skilled enough. People born of his type become labeled as "invalid." He decided to assume the identity of a former swimmer Jerome Morrow to achieve his lifetime goals. Like himself, the capability to imitate Jerome and see the world outside of Earth is interesting, even though that became challenging. While an individual's genetic make-up causes discrimination, the movie Gattaca illustrates ideas about human identity through Vincent's determination towards success and his will over scrutiny to achieve his dreams.

Living up to one’s full potential may not seem easy, but with genetic help, life might not be so difficult after all. Vincent Anton Freeman is living in a society where people are genetically modified to be the best versions of their parents. With a dream to travel in space, Vincent impersonates a disabled “valid” in order to chase this dream. The movie Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol shows how Vincent, Lamar, Jerome, and Irene are unorthodox by breaking the societal rules of what a particular invalid could or should do.

The film GATTACA describes a world where the wrong genetic code leads to a life of little opportunities and genetic discrimination. In this world, parents can freely select and enhance a child’s genetic code, to make them smarter, faster, stronger. They can essentially “program” their child for a life of success, making them physically enhanced beings known as “valids”. However, genetic engineering in real life is not only risky but also limits genetic diversity, and there’s also the consequences of an elongated

Gattaca is an American based science fiction cinema directed by Andrew Niccol in 1997. The movie is set shortly where social class is demarcated by the genetic composition. Eugenics, which is the methodology of conceiving babies via genetic manipulation, has become the most typical process of giving birth (Niccol, 2015). Though discrimination is unlawful, the D.N.A analysis has become an ordinary procedure, and those who were naturally conceived are seen as ‘invalids’, which makes discriminated in various, for instance, resulting in being given minor jobs. Therefore, this research presents the summary, the biocultural phenomenon, and the real world implications of Gattaca (1997) movie.

The idea of designer babies has been present in science fiction literature and films for decades. From Huxley’s novel Brave New World, in which babies are grown in vats and there is no such thing as family, to the 1997 film Gattaca, in which children who are genetically engineered are considered superior and a person’s value is based entirely on their DNA (Molina, 2016).

It tells us that technology sometimes is dangerous and vital if we cannot gain power over it.

The 1997 film Gattaca is set in a not-so-distant future where your destiny and, overall, your value as a human being is determined by your genetic code. Gattaca follows Vincent Freeman, a man whose entire genome was left up to fate; leaving him with a status of Invalid and a genetic code suitable for only menial jobs, including custodial duties. In order to achieve his dream of traveling to space, Freeman borrows the DNA of his roommate Jerome Marrow: a genetically flawless Valid who was left paralyzed by a failed suicide attempt. The movie has been extensively analyzed for its ethical principles, such as the hedonic calculus and utilitarianism, the Nuremburg Code, and discrimination.

Now on the other end of this spectrum comes someone with a pure technical perspective on this concept. There are a number of personalities that may push aside society and create their new technology for only personal gains, be it money, or malicious intent. Technologies built to destroy societies and ideologies, specifically war and those behind the weaponry for such wars. Perhaps these were accidentally designed without the societal repercussions in mind for when they come into play down the road, but nevertheless that have in the most extreme situations, destroyed societies.