•••1 SELFIE | thefuture.life

EDWIN SHANK has a brain-challenged son and, subsequently, a younger, genetically engineered daughter with a startling mutation, for which he will never forgive himself. Edwin has always had lots of old money that has not served him well. He’s bored, despite being a target for a growing activist class of The Homeless. He has a distant relationship with his wife, a tendency toward self-indulgence, sadness and bad health. One day he drops dead on the street, but he’s revived, and has had a remarkable experience that inspires him to seek redemption before his inevitable death. As he struggles to finance a solution to mortality, he comes up with a back-up plan, to make a clone of himself, and raise it to do better for as long as he can.

Cloning/Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering already happens everyday with food sources. Soon designer babies could speed evolution or just explore the limits of vanity. Human cloning is possible now, but it’s illegal, which never stopped anyone with enough money. A clone would be a duplicate in terms of nature, but with a different life. How much can a clone stray from its DNA? And what about the potential for mutations? Very new terrain.