Saturday, June 05, 2004

Posted here Saturday, June 05, 2004 at 10:50:53 AM     The technocratic runs on a myth of bits, bytes and bricks: that the world is an ensemble of things, and so are you and I. "Three billion bases can be put on a single compact disc (CD), and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here's a human being; it's me!'" Walter Gilbert, "A Vision of the Grail," in The Code of Codes (ed.DJ Kevles and L. Hood, Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992), p. 96. referenced in http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~consbio/Cons/Historical2003.pdf ********