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Synopsis

• In a few decades ...
• Lincoln 6-Echo and his friend Jordan 2-Delta
  live, as a hundreds of Products , in a cast
  underground community where life is tightly
  controlled and ruled by strict codes. The only
  hope of escaping this sterile sphere is to be
  selected to be transferred on The Island . It
  is decribed, by the leaders of the community, as
  the last place which survived to the ecological
  catastrophy which devastated our Earth few years
  before and made the atmosphere unbreathable. Linc
  oln, as all his peers, believed for a long at
  this paradise. But, for quite some time now,
  recurring nightmares disturbed his nights, and he
  started to question the meaning of his life and
  the restrictations to his freedom.
• Impelled by a tenacious curiosity, Lincoln will
  soon discover the unbearable truth ...

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Technology

• Cloning of human beings
• Goal humans have living clone to have access to
  a second source of their own organs. Long term
  goal immortality
• How is it used in the society
• Clones have to be alive and active (not in a
  lethargy state)
• They live in a closed world kept secret from the
  rest of the society
• Clones are under permanent control and have no
  awareness of the outside world
• Other surrounding technologies
• Monitoring of cerebral activity
• Electronic and interactive bracelet containing
  personal information

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Obstacles to implement the technology

• Technological obstacles
• In the movie, clones are born directly at the
  adult stage. Gestation is done in a bag and not
  through human body.
• Ethical obstacles
• Living organ bank Using and killing human
  beings
• Identity issue for the clones
• Meaning of life can a clone be considered as a
  simple product?

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Overcoming the issues

• Technological improvements being able to clone
  human beings, directly as adults
• Changes in ethical standards
• Acceptance of sacrificing humans to let other
  people live
• Identity issue for the clones (being a copy of
  someone else)
• Institutional requirements authorization by law
• Strategy
• Investing in RD to develop the technology
• Lobbying on the opinion leaders and governments
  to make the mentality evolve and create laws
• Prove the usefulness of the technology to save
  lives
• Take advantage of a potential catastrophy (use
  peoples fear to introduce our technology)

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Consequences

• Benefits
• Save lives, cure diseases
• Extend life span
• Plastic surgery
• Solution for unfertile parents
• Harmful effects to the society
• Expensive technology affordable only to rich
  people unfairness (organ and human trade)
• Creating life to destroy it

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Our opinion

• In our point of view, it is inacceptable to
  create conscious human beings for the purpose of
  using them.
• It is a totally different way to conceive life
  we give birth out of love, and not to use it as a
  business tool
• However, we do not know how our mentalities and
  values are going to evolve, and maybe the
  acceptance of this idea will be possible in a far
  future (not as immoral as in the movie). Even
  having clones (without using them as organ bank
  or product) would rise serious society concerns
  (loss of identity, unnatural way of procreating,
  unnatural regulation of populations, creation of
  only perfect human beings, ).

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Conclusion

• Cloning parts of human body in a larger scale
  will probably be possible for medical purposes
• But cloning whole human beings is unlikely to
  happen because it is against all ethical standards