Maps matter.
It is possible to create accurate, clear maps of the current terrain (scientific, geographic, cultural)...and you may still not know where you are, or where it will take you.
The most important map in recent history is that of the human genome.
Code matters.
Codes (images, icons) become codified. You are no longer need to be present to transmit. You can speak over time to people far away over time and space. Alphanumeric systems are extremely efficient. Digital code is even more so. Ones and Oh s are simple. Images, languages, music can all be collapsed into ones and ohs...the digital century.
NOW
The code is biological. Ones and ohs give way to a-t-c-g. Read the code, you figure out the figure out what IT is. Execute the code, you make the thing. Genomes are the source code for things. Oligos are the building blocks of biological things.
If you know the source code and know how to execute it, you can manipulate it...chickens with three wings. If you can do that maybe we can thing about how to regrow human limbs, a new liver, a new heart.
Those that were digitally illiterate became very poor. (Example: France- the internet preceded ours by a decade. They were a closed system. The University of Damascus was THE center of thought, research, science. They "got off the boat". Societies that get so scared of change, give up thought research- the cost? The culture may remain--for a while, but it is also the death knell of progress and power.)
Now. We need to be bilogically literate.
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