{"id":1401,"date":"2008-11-12T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T11:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2008-11-07T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T17:43:27","slug":"plausible-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Plausible SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsarama has published a roundup of the most <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/film\/081116-top-5-plausible-sci-fi.html\">plausible science fiction movies<\/A> (hint: none of them involve FTL).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Gattaca (1997)<\/b><br \/>\nIn the not-too-distant future world of Gattaca, children&#8217;s genes are pre-selected by their upper-class parents for the best traits; those babies whose genes are imperfect are treated as second-class citizens. Today DNA analysis is common, and several companies offer genetic testing for as little as a few hundred dollars. Genetic profiling? Health insurance companies potentially denying claims based on genetic predisposition to a disease? For many, this fear is not science fiction but science fact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By &#8220;plausible&#8221; I think they just mean &#8220;uses technology close to what we&#8217;ve got now&#8221; rather than &#8220;likelihood of this happening.&#8221;  One of the movies listed is <I>Jurassic Park<\/I>, and while yes, we can extract DNA from ancient sources and yes, we can replicate that DNA, I don&#8217;t think that automatically translates into &#8220;we&#8217;re in imminent danger of becoming T. rex kibble.&#8221;  Still, that&#8217;s probably more plausible than <I>The Matrix<\/I>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsarama has published a roundup of the most plausible science fiction movies (hint: none of them involve FTL). Gattaca (1997) In the not-too-distant future world of Gattaca, children&#8217;s genes are pre-selected by their upper-class parents for the best traits; those babies whose genes are imperfect are treated as second-class citizens. Today DNA analysis is common, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}