Plenty of movies are going to portray the harsh post-apocalyptic world after robots or zombies rise up. But what about clones? They look like us, they think like us, and they may even know what we know.

Popular culture has been misrepresenting clones since the term was applied to Homo sapiens. If you want to make the most of the biotech revolution, you're going to have to unlearn the most egregious of culture's misapprehensions.