I read an interesting short sci fi story that suggested that the interactions of DNA represented the language of a higher organism; that humans and other DNA-based life forms were merely the carriers. On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Frederick Burroughs wrote:
Dan Veeneman wrote:
For real paranoia fodder, check out the burgeoning biometrics field.
As the recent news regarding the Vietnam era Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery illustrates, biometrics will increasingly define who we are. Accomplishments and monuments will fall to bits. The bits of you extend before your birth and after your death, you are but a placeholder for a mitochondrial dna profile.
Will this resolution of organisms to digits open us to exploitation and limit our access to opportunities? What demon is forcing this template upon our very being?