Polis genetica and society of the future

If the impact of the new biotechnologies is reassuring for the positive effects on the quality of human life, on health and nutrition, some troubling implications in social legitimization, genetic selection and manipulation of living matter, are worrying. All of this, which can be defined as the "polis genetica", seems to be inevitable and initiates radical modification in the social system, where genetic information is assuming an ever more important role in many aspects of human life.