You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward collection)

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Part Sci-Fi , but also seemed like it could be something in the near future (SCARY) where parents choose what kind of child they want! Including gender and intelligence. What could possibly go wrong? Want to see a future video of it before your child is born?? A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact. The only thing wrong with this story is that I did not understand the ending... I mean I kinda do... but I kinda don't. This was written as a science fiction story. But reality already seems to have caught up with this story a little bit. It’s no longer the future, not the very distant future anyway. This is the present. It’s no longer science fiction, it’s the reality we live in today. In the US it’s already possible to choose your baby’s eye color. And in Northern Cyprus it’s already possible to choose your baby’s gender. You can already do that right now. That’s frightening to say the least. It’s not the science we need to be concerned about. Because that ship has sailed. The things they already know about our DNA are incredible. And the sky is the limit for the future. It’s how we are going to use this knowledge, to what extent and how we’re going to regulate it, that we should be worried about right now. It’s the ethical questions we face today and how we’re going to answer them that will shape mankind’s future. And we should not be taking these questions lightly. Annie has spent a considerable amount of time with the employees of Vitek, designing her and Sam's prospective progeny. We join this story on the day her choices are shown to her husband, the unveiling of which will turn his vanilla world upside down.

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a b Kaufman, Joane (September 23, 2016). "Amor Towles, a Gentleman in Gramercy Park". The New York Times . Retrieved February 23, 2017. This very short story is well written - ( I read the short ebook version and listened to the Audiobook) > combined it didn’t take much time. So, yes. Working in a law firm or ad firm or consulting firm. In Chicago or Atlanta or San Francisco. These are basically variables, and regardless of which ones Daniel chooses, he will probably end up with a similar life experience. But let’s not get too bogged down in the weeds. The story is divided in three acts, and this part is relevant to the narrative. I am not going to go and describe each part because then we would get into spoilers and the story itself is so short I urge you to go read it.

Groskop, Viv (2011-07-15). "Rules of Civility by Amor Towles – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2016-10-12. we are looking at aggregated biographic histories to predict individual biographic outcomes. Drawing from a wide array of sources, we’ve assembled a database on three generations of Americans that includes not only their gender and ethnicity but information on the environments in which they were raised—like their parents’ religions, educations, professions, and political identifications. Then we have traced how the lives of the subjects actually unfolded. By mapping the foundational information of this large population alongside their eventual experiences, we can start to identify meaningful patterns that help us clarify how nature and nurture have combined to shape the lives they’ve led.” Oh Tezza they're so good, a nice snappy break from the usual fare, didn't you read Breakfast recently? Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow. When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life. Amor Towles’s You Have Arrived at Your Destination is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting. You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles – eBook Details

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You just wait, mait! After you hit the biblical three score and ten, it's downhill all the waaaaayy... :)) This is one of the Forward Collection, short stories...this one's 46pp...based on an idea by Blake Crouch to explore the nature of change, innovation, and society in fiction. I didn't feel this entry suited the brief. It's too gee-whiz about self-driving cars, a thing that's already entered its second decade of reality...it's entirely too wowee-toledo about the idea of in vitro genetic manipulation, something that's basically ready to roll as soon as a generation less squeamish than our kids' is grows into power...and his lumpen over-the-bottom classist narrator/narrative frame was, frankly, eye-rollingly ridiculous. Sam, and his wife Annie, have taken the slow path, saving and planning to create a stable home. Now it's time to start a family, which in their case necessitates a course of IVF.

Szalai, Georg (25 August 2022). "Ewan McGregor to Star in Drama Series 'A Gentleman in Moscow' for Paramount+ Internationally, Showtime in U.S." The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 17 September 2022. Bianca wrote: "Great review, Mark. I'm so behind in my reading, I don't know if and when I'll get to this one." Sam goes to a new fertility lab called Vitek. They offer future parents the opportunity to make some very small alterations to the DNA of their child. So their child can have a leg up in an increasingly competitive society. When the fertility lab shows Sam all his options, he starts to realize something about himself. The possibilities of who his future child could end up becoming, with a few genetic nudges in his chosen direction, reveal more about Sam himself than he’d like to admit.