SELFIE | futurity

EDWIN SHANK has always had lots of old money. He has genetically engineered, dysfunctional kids, a distant wife, a tendency toward self-indulgence and bad health. He’s chronically sad, and frequently wonders how he let that happen. One day he drops dead on the street, but when he’s revived, he’s had a remarkable experience that inspires him to seek redemption and change, but he’s clueless how to get it. He struggles until a new idea takes hold. He’ll make a clone of himself, then engineer it and raise it to do better.

Cloning/Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering already happens everyday with food sources. Soon designer babies could speed evolution or just explore the limits of vanity. Human cloning is possible now, but it’s illegal, which never stopped anyone with enough money. A clone would be a duplicate in terms of nature, but with a different life. How much can a clone stray from its DNA? And what about the potential for mutations? Very new terrain.