Sublime

Humans and machines might merge so completely that humans will not be able to survive at all if they are disconnected from the network. They will be connected starting in the womb, and if later in life you choose to disconnect, insurance agencies might refuse to insure you, employers might refuse to employ you, and healthcare services might refuse

Human diseases are repeatedly explained to us in terms of their chemical or genetic makeup; meanwhile, we’ve completely ignored the load profile that the function of our body depends upon. As far-fetched as this may sound, we, like these floppy-finned orcas, are animals in captivity, and our tissues are not suited to the loads created through the

And then there are the viruses that lug around bundles of genes that can be very helpful to a microbe but offer no immediate benefit to themselves. When they slip into the genome of E. coli, it becomes much harder to say where the virus leaves off and the host begins.