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October 2022

Podcast: Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today

Gattaca

October 18, 2022 featuring Mark Dean

In our third episode, Duncan and Mark dive into the 1997 sci-fi noir, Gattaca. Duncan skips out on the squirmy bits, but both our podcasters ultimately complete the viewing of this underrated film with a sense that the eugenicist strive to perfection that so often infiltrates the thinking of tech companies is perhaps not a