Did your grandfather know anything about stem cells and that there would be a battle over human embryos being created to harvest them? It’s not fiction.
It’s fiction to think that mad scientists with no regard for the value of human life or traditional morality will make the world “better”, or that the future will be a grand techonological utopia as they fantasize. Hitler and his gang used a lot of innovative science.
Read Brave New World if you haven’t, and again, if you have.
And since many “primitives” such as myself refuse to live in a mechanistic hell such as you describe, it would have to be implemented by tyranny, so tyranny is the main feature. Plus all that crap won’t work.
God is the greatest engineer, inventor and scientist. All others are as dust, and their grandeur is only in their own minds. In fact, anything they discover or know is only a pinch of a reflection of His energy, and as He gives, He also takes away.