by Nicholas Negroponte. Negroponte is the founder of the MIT Media Lab, as well as the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project.I read it cover-to-cover several times, and it had a strong influence on me at the time, and many of the predictions made within it turned out to be right on the money.
Somewhere along the way, I lost it. I don't know if I loaned it out and never got it back, misplaced it in a move - I just don't know where it went. So I wanted to replace it, and read it again.
Now that I live in the bright, shining digital future Negroponte foretold, I wanted to buy it in digital form to read on my iPad. Get this - it's not available in readable digital form. It's only available in print and audiobook (narrated by Penn Jillette). WTF?!?
. It's a fictional story set in the not-too-distant future, where virtually all babies are "genetically engineered" to be free of genetic flaws or diseases. Job applications are submitted with blood and urine tests. Although this is done today, it's typically for drug testing purposes. In the movie, it's done to determine health, likely aptitudes, genetic predispositions to mental illness or addiction, etc. The story centers around a protagonist whose parents wanted a "God baby" - a birth left up to nature. The viewer follows this "natural" protagonist through his efforts to fit into this genetically "perfect" society.