- Discussion of the 1997 viral marketing campaign for the film *Gattaca*, in which Sony placed full-page newspaper ads for a fictional “Gattaca Corporation” offering “Children made to order,” prompting the American Society for Reproductive Medicine to demand clearer disclaimers that it was only a movie.  
- Reference to the 1997 film *Contact* (Carl Sagan adaptation) as another notable example of thoughtful science-fiction cinema from the same era.  
- Brief mention of a researcher’s “recent publication history” being characterized as “chronic doomerism,” hinting at ongoing debates over pessimistic versus optimistic narratives in transhumanist and AI discourse.