genetic design

Bri Fowle

I have been noticing that in both Bladerunner and Gun, with Occasional Music there has been a lot of genetic design. This was probably what a lot of people thought and most likely think now when it comes to the future. Some of it has happened with some clones and stem cell research. The stuff that the film and the book talk about are much more advanced. In Bladerunner, the Replicants are essentially superhumans that were created to do jobs that no one else really wanted to do. They were considered a subclass of humans, much like the babyheads and evolved animals in Gun, with Occasional Music. The evolved animals are based off of the same idea that Bladerunner presented- a subclass of humans made to do jobs that no one else wanted to do. They also are presumably trying to fight for more rights so they are treated more like humans. They also meet with a lot of opposition, especially from the older generation, because, at least in my opinion, they were probably around when animals were just animals, and they have a hard time accepting the fact that things are different. The babyheads seem to be a different class of genetic design. Apparently people don’t like to raise kids anymore so the families put their child through genetic therapy and the child grows up much faster and they are at full maturity when they still look like children (or that’s the description that I get out of the book). So it doesn’t seem like the babyheads are raised to be a subclass, but while they are still children, they are considered by many to be one.