Gatacca Comparison

The books have been read, the movies have been seen, and the future is coming, but which future exactly? For many years now, views of what the future world is thought to be like are still unknown. Studies of all elements including religion, politics, self-identity and socio-economic status all contribute to writers and producers thoughts of how the world may be in the near future. This symposium will evaluate two speculative pieces 1997 Andrew Nicol's Film 'Gatacca' and 2004 Isaac Ashimov's book 'IRobot and assess the accuracy of the representations of the future in terms of the social, cultural and historical contexts of the time in which they were produced

Gatacca is a 1997 Speculative fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, a 'never been done before' insight of how the future or what the future may hold for us and the next generations to come. Set in the near future, the film introduces ideas of human genetic modification and a

This novel show’s a social divide between the rich and the poor as seen in Gatacca but also represents an extreme future where most of human life is reliant on robots to do all of the people’s hard work for them. The idea of advanced robotics was not only prominent in the time era of the making of the novel but also in the prior ten years of this. An example of this, in the year 2000 the nation’s first advanced robot assisted surgical procedure in a children’s hospital was taken place. Elements of this can be seen in the novel, where robots are created to work for humans. The idea of having these robotic helpers is not a farfetched idea that isn’t achievable; it’s the matter of the robots being socially excepted not by some members of the society but all of them. To get everyone on the side for robot helpers was the next step for robotic technicians which are something that Isaac Asimov observed and highlighted in his