Genetic Modification In Gattaca

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Genetic modification and identification, ever thought about it? Well in the movie “GATTACA”, it shows many types of technology to identify someone by their role in society through genetic identification and modification, the way they use both identification and modification through technology and other sorts is pretty cool. Would you ever consider having genetic modification and identification as part of society today? I feel that it would be interesting to have these things part of our society, but at the same time somewhat scary. As of right now, I don’t really know how I feel about having genetic modification and identification as part of our society.
About genetic modification and identification, I think that we should give it a try in our society it does quite seem interesting, but then again we never know what may happen, like how in the movie when “Jerome” (aka Vincent)
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Due to the situation of what happened in the movie of “Jerome/Vincent”, using the technology of genetic modification and identification is somewhat pretty risky actually, if you think about it. Take for example, what if we had a serious homicide case and a team of forensic experts were looking around the crime scene, and one of the forensic experts eyebrow hair happens to fall onto the floor of the crime scene, when the police come back in and finds that piece of eyebrow hair, they may think that the forensic expert is the killer, since there was a piece of DNA there. If we didn’t have the advanced technology of genetic modification and identification, the world may just stay the same, that’s unless society finds another way that somewhat relates to the advanced technology of genetic modification and identification. All in all, what I’m trying to say is that all of society will just remain the same without the advanced

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