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<spoiler>The Utopia TV series from BBC channel 4.</spoiler>

Amazing show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(UK_TV_series)

Note: The name of the channel that the TV series was broadcast on is "Channel 4". There is a British channel called "BBC Four", but not all British television channels are operated by the BBC.

The Mass Effect series explores that sort of idea with a species-specific mutation that dramatically reduces birth rate.

Perhaps Old Bill Burroughs should have concerned himself with something more realistic, like not murdering his wife, rather than hypothetical genocide.

Yes, he shot Joan Vollmer in the head, in Mexico City. Using a .38 snub, as I recall. He variously claimed that it was an accident. Or that they were playing William Tell. But he fled to the US, to escape prosecution, and was eventually convicted of manslaughter. Later, after doing Scientology, he claimed that he'd been possessed by an evil spirit.

For an interesting take on the aftermath, see Rudy Rucker's Turing & Burroughs.