{"id":5208,"date":"2023-06-12T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T08:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2023-06-12T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T08:55:56","slug":"problems-with-dystopian-representations-in-genetic-futurism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/12\/problems-with-dystopian-representations-in-genetic-futurism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abProblems with dystopian representations in genetic futurism\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/quienes-somos-nueva\/investigadores-en-formacion\/jon-rueda-etxebarria\/\">Jon Rueda Etxebarria<\/a>, miembro e investigador de FiloLab, ha publicado recientemente un <em>Correspondance<\/em>\u00a0en la prestigiosa revista <em>Nature<\/em> (<em>Nature Genetics<\/em>), titulado \u00abProblems with dystopian representations in genetic futurism\u00bb (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41588-023-01416-9). En su texto, Rueda debate con el art\u00edculo \u00abGATTACA is still pertinent 25 years later\u00bb de Dov Greenbaum y Mark Gerstein (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41588-022-01242-5) en torno a las representaciones dist\u00f3picas del futuro que involucran la tecnolog\u00eda gen\u00e9tica. A continuaci\u00f3n reproducimos parte del texto de Jon Rueda.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abWhat 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 \u2014 that is, scenarios that present societies that are extremely undesirable by our current standards \u2014 constitute a dominant sub-specific genre. Among dystopian films, GATTACA is probably the most popular movie in terms of its warning of the misguided advance of genetic technologies. GATTACA depicts a two-tier society where inequalities based on prenatal genetic enhancement and the socially determinant role of genetic information are the norm.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent comment, Dov Greenbaum and Mark Gerstein have interestingly defended the relevance of GATTACA 25 years after its release2. According to these authors, one of the virtues of this film is that it is based on feasible technologies. The prescient aura of this film arises from showing where current emerging technologies (such as next-generation genome sequencing, genome-wide association studies or CRISPR\u2013C as gene editing) could eventually lead us. Greenbaum and Gerstein, moreover, rightly point out that \u201cGATTACA and pop culture stories like it are, for better or for worse, some of the main sources of society\u2019s conventional science wisdom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Puedes seguir leyendo el art\u00edculo completo a trav\u00e9s de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41588-023-01416-9.epdf?sharing_token=W-vm93QgL0XqIFvmCSSXJdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PLJn3Owk5k9FQX82EOWe9F_0X7x5y4uJQ-Sn9KbdxO-fsuYR_7Usl2Kumf2Jb_cFq1hd3ArwEypPWsSj_KO5fDRmtW__D_RnHAIYjtDSlLXJb6GoqollECJL57mJgYeXs%3D\">este link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5209 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/EjxhbO-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/EjxhbO-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/EjxhbO-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/EjxhbO-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/EjxhbO.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Rueda Etxebarria, miembro e investigador de FiloLab, ha publicado recientemente un Correspondance\u00a0en la prestigiosa revista Nature (Nature Genetics), titulado \u00abProblems with dystopian representations in genetic futurism\u00bb (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41588-023-01416-9). En su texto, Rueda debate con el art\u00edculo \u00abGATTACA is still pertinent 25 years later\u00bb de Dov Greenbaum y Mark Gerstein (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41588-022-01242-5) en torno a las representaciones [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,149],"tags":[437,435,125,3026,3028,3030,3032,1568],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}