“Harvested!” began as speculative fiction, but it’s fast becoming eerily plausible. The premise: humanity has engineered itself into three distinct factions—Venusta (the beautiful), Ingenios (the brilliant), and Militus (the powerful). What began as a quest for perfection has spiraled into a controlled dystopia where your genome determines your destiny.
Real-world genetics is rapidly approaching that edge. CRISPR gene editing, designer embryos, and cognitive enhancement research hint at a future where editing humanity is not only possible, but commercialized.
Explore the bioethics behind the fiction: What happens when enhancements are only available to the elite? When intelligence, beauty, or strength becomes a purchasable trait? And when the cost of resistance is exclusion—or extinction?
“Harvested!” isn’t a warning. It’s a mirror. It asks: Are we designing a better future . . . or engineering ourselves into disaster?
