If we're to believe The Island, the private sector, in the very near future, is about to make Halliburton and the rest of those scary big guys look like a kids' corner lemonade stand. Director Michael Bay's new movie posits a secretive biotech operation offering rich people the opportunity to have their very own, disease-free clones. In other words, for $5 million you can have a more or less living insurance policy. Need a kidney transplant? You got it, helicoptered right to the operating room.
It's a sweet, even vaguely plausible, scheme. The clones are kept in a nice white bunker,...