"Standard men and women; in uniformed batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg." p.7
The opening chapter can be described only mildly described as a little troubling. A factory of humans? That seems really crazy and yet, possible. As weird as it might seem, this factory could become a reality. Maybe not to this extreme, but with people being forced into specialization and ever-increasingly scary science in which we sometimes play as the Creator, this type of cloning and factory-like birth process could become reality. This kind of reminds of a movie I saw in Biology freshman year called Gattaca, where, in the movie, humans are genetically engineered. In the movie, the main character is not genetically engineered and buys the identity of an engineered human to live his dream of becoming an astronaut. Although the idea of "perfect humans equaling a perfect society" may seem like eutopiast, it can open up a Pandora's box.
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