«Problems with dystopian representations in genetic futurism»
Jon Rueda Etxebarria, miembro e investigador de FiloLab, ha publicado recientemente un Correspondance en la prestigiosa revista Nature (Nature Genetics), titulado "Problems with dystopian representations in genetic futurism" (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01416-9). En su texto, Rueda debate con el artículo "GATTACA is still pertinent 25 years later" de Dov Greenbaum y Mark Gerstein (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01242-5) en torno a las representaciones distópicas del futuro que involucran la tecnología genética. A continuación reproducimos parte del texto de Jon Rueda. "What impact can genetic advances have on the future of humanity? In science fiction, when it comes to answering that question, one common tendency is to portray a bleak image of our genetic future1. Dystopias — that is, scenarios that present societies that are extremely undesirable by our current standards — constitute a dominant sub-specific genre. Among dystopian…
