Gattaca
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 good thing.
Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today is sponsored by the Carmichael Centre within the Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute.
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