In 2001 the cost of sequencing a single genome was a billion dollars. In 2014, it was a thousand. By 2020 it has dropped to 99 cents. Massive data brokering agencies that once bought stockpiles of personal digital information scraped from the clouds of the internet, now categorize, manipulate, and trade in biological material. This is the world of the 99-cent lifeform, where life is no longer unique or natural, but a set of manufactured traits and data indices, bought and sold for maximum profit. Like a color-matched cover for a phone or an online shopping list tailored to our hobbies, we collect genetically modified pets, living avatars, engineered to look like their owners. You are not unique; this is the post-personal economy. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | January 1, 2014 | |
Genres: | Short Sci-Fi | |
Cast: | Sabine Crossen Jim Liu | |
Crew: | Alexey Marfin | |
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