Imagine a world where your genes determine what kind of profession and lifestyle you are going to have. There are no job interviews, no doubts, no dreams. A simple blood test outlines your professional path and there's nothing to discuss. Either you're a champion or you're a loser. You can design your perfect child and this perfect child can be put on the road to success. You can see that nature is full of flaws and in comparison with genetic modifications, it fails to create perfection. But what if your dreams surpassed your inborn abilities and you wanted a better life for yourself? What if there was a plan to deceive the system? Why talent and predispositions are not enough and to achieve what you dream about you need a very strong will, luck, and one or two lies? Gattaca.
Have you noticed a crowd of people queuing in the supermarket, have you been stuck in a traffic or have you taken part in the crowd fight when they finally opened the shop during high sales season? Have you by any chance noticed that there are more of us, as a matter of fact, more than there had ever been, while the Earth seems to be just as small as it used to be? How to solve the problem of overpopulation, the lack of resources, the society's debt and an increasing feeling of being eaten by the threat of global warming? Is changing our size the solution to all the above? Or is human nature prone to inequality, racism, discrimination, and exploitation no matter what size we are? A modern tale of Gulliver's Travels and some really funny highlights of small people in a big big world. Downsizing.
Medical and technological advances spring up like mushrooms after rain. Granted a certain amount of money, you can have control over the features of your child: you can choose an egg, a sperm donor, even a surrogate. Let's take a step further, possibly in the future you will be able to choose more specific features: hair color, the shape of eyes, level of intelligence. It might be possible that you will produce a better you, without flaws, without defects and genetically predisposed diseases. But what if your plan went slightly wrong? What if, instead of a perfect creature, you'd create something a little bit too perfect? Morgan.

