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Life 2.0 (2020)
A high quality modern documentary series ;-)
A high quality modern documentary series featuring real ideas and people. The host is able to explain complicated science to the everyday person. I'm very impressed with this series ;-)
GATTACA (1997)
Awesome movie, made in 1997 is so far before its time and the concept is still science fiction
Gattaca is an awesome movie, made in 1997 is so far before its time and the concept is still science fiction.
Gattaca is the original science fiction movie that illustrates how genomics technologies might be used in the distant future. I think this is a landmark movie. Similar to the fear of robots the "Terminator" movies gave people, gattaca gave people a fear about the future of genomics technologies.
Aside from the health and privacy concerns with using genomics information the movie did not touch on the potential benefits of the technology, such as the concept of "DNA romance"; matchmaking people based on the compatibility of their DNA. Google "DNAromance" for more information about how genomics technologies might be used in the near future.
The Perfect 46 (2014)
A very neat concept but, the directors did not do this topic justice!!
Review -- The Perfect 46 was supposed to be a science fiction movie but, this science is actually fact! There are several start-up companies using the concept of DNA matchmaking today, just google "DNA romance".
I felt the directors took this concept in an unlikely direction and turned the idea of DNA matchmaking into Frankenstein's monster. I felt they missed the real value people would see in a DNA based matchmaking. The perfect 46 pretends that DNA based matchmaking will only give health reports and the idea has no other value.
Education -- Unlike what is described in the perfect 46 there are no companies offering health based compatibility reports. The approach these DNA matchmaking companies use for compatibility reports is based on opposite HLA genes, meaning the have couple will have biological chemistry, they will find that their partners odor smells sexy.