DNA = puppet masters?

Illuminatus Primus vermont at gate.net
Thu Apr 30 01:06:01 PDT 1998


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?
> 
> 







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