In a society where high status is based on appearances, people in that higher status must have designer clothes, designer cars and soon designer babies. This means, in the future, the privileged will be able to pick their child's eye color, hair color and I.Q. Even determining certain aspects of personality can be as simple, as a trip to the doctor's office. As unreal as this seems, this phenomenon, is coming in the not so distant future. Despite opposition, scientists are coming closer and closer to human gene manipulation. It should even be perfected in the next ten to fifteen years. In fact, gene manipulation for more simple organisms is already commonly practice.

Gene manipulation in modern society

Genetic manipulation was first introduced in agriculture. It is used to insure insect resistance and allows farmers to grow more crops in a shorter amount of time. Also, because...