You Have Arrived at Your Destination

“But our genes don't merely express who we are”
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The Forward Collection has been amazing so far... okay, maybe except for “Ark” by Veronica Roth. This is my first Towles read and I must say I'm impressed. Four down, two more stories to go.⁣
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In a not so distant future you can go and knock on Vitek's door, a fertility and genetic engineering company, if you feel like having a child. Blue or black eyes? Girl or boy? Tall? That's just peanuts to them; they can go beyond and work on the contours of your child's personality based on the parent's profiles. What's even more shocking is that they can later create video projections of how your son's life could be. C-R-E-E-P-Y. This is about the moral implications of such technology and the rediscovery of your own feelings and decisions.⁣
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Mr. Towles, you are on my radar now.⁣