David Plotz

Believing America faced genetic catastrophe, Robert Graham decided he could reverse the decline by artificially inseminating women with the sperm of geniuses. In 1980, Graham opened the Repository for Germinal Choice and stocked it with the seed of gifted scientists, inventors, and thinkers. Over the next nineteen years, Graham’s “genius factory” produced more than 200 children. What happened to them? Were they the brilliant children that Graham expected? The children of the “genius factory” are messengers from the future–a future that is bearing down on us fast. What will families be like when parents routinely “shop” for their kids’ genes? What will children be like when they’re programmed for greatness?