Editing Gattaca (section)

==Legacy==

===Influence on ''In Time''===
Writer-director [[Andrew Niccol]] has called his 2011 film ''[[In Time]]'' a "bastard child of ''Gattaca''".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/10/in-time-gattaca/ |title=Director Calls In Time 'Bastard Child of Gattaca' |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |first=Robert |last=Capps |date=October 6, 2011 |access-date=August 15, 2019 |archive-date=August 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815152113/https://www.wired.com/2011/10/in-time-gattaca/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a7251/in-time-andrew-niccol-on-his-gattaca-inspired-new-film-6531927/ |title=In Time: Andrew Niccol on His Gattaca-Inspired New Film |work=[[Popular Mechanics]] |first=Eric |last=McCarthy |date=October 28, 2011 |access-date=August 15, 2019 |archive-date=August 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815152113/https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a7251/in-time-andrew-niccol-on-his-gattaca-inspired-new-film-6531927/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Both films feature classic cars in a futuristic dystopia as well as a [[caste]] privilege schism which the protagonist challenges and which prejudices the authorities into neglecting a thorough investigation in favor of condemning the protagonist.

===Political references===
U.S. Senator [[Rand Paul]] used near-verbatim portions of the plot summary from the [[English Wikipedia]] entry on ''Gattaca'' in a speech at [[Liberty University]] on October 28, 2013, in support of Virginia Attorney General [[Ken Cuccinelli]]'s campaign for [[Governor of Virginia]]. Paul said that [[Abortion-rights movements|abortion rights advocates]] are advancing eugenics in a manner similar to the events in ''Gattaca''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/28/rand-paul-abortion-eugenics/3290839/ |title=Senator: Scientific advances could bring back eugenics |work=[[Courier Journal|The Courier-Journal]] |publisher=[[USA Today]] |first=James R. |last=Carroll |date=October 28, 2013 |access-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-date=November 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106093144/http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/28/rand-paul-abortion-eugenics/3290839/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/rachel-maddow-rand-paul-wikipedia-99015.html |title=Rachel Maddow: Rand Paul ripped off Wikipedia |work=[[Politico]] |publisher=[[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] |first=Tal |last=Kopan |date=October 28, 2013 |access-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-date=November 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101125434/http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/rachel-maddow-rand-paul-wikipedia-99015.html? |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Transhumanism===
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In the 2004 [[democratic transhumanist]] book ''[[Citizen Cyborg]]'', [[Bioethics|bioethicist]] [[James Hughes (sociologist)|James Hughes]] criticized the premise and influence of the film as fear-mongering, arguing:
# Astronaut-training programs are entirely justified in attempting to screen out people with heart problems for safety reasons;
# In the United States, people are already screened by insurance companies on the basis of their propensities to disease, for actuarial purposes;
# Rather than banning [[genetic testing]] or genetic enhancement, society should develop [[Genetic privacy|genetic information privacy]] [[privacy law|laws]], such as the U.S. [[Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act]] signed into law on May 21, 2008, that allow justified forms of genetic testing and data aggregation, but forbid those that are judged to result in genetic discrimination. Citizens should then be able to make a complaint to the appropriate authority if they believe they have been discriminated against because of their genotype.<ref name="hughes" />