i mean the power is asjohn solsten, the great scientist, once said, what happens when a machine beginser the own language of its construction? what if a machine could write its own manual? that's where we are now. we are machines that are learning to read and write our own manuals of instruction. you know, genes are not destiny. there's chance, there's environment. genes are a kind of constraint that place a constraint on chance and destiny. so i don't want to say that genes equal you. no. but what is important is that it is impossible to think about you without at least paying very, very serious attention to genes. of course, the moment we get on to this subject, people begin to think, in a nightmarish way, about, people who talked about eugenics in the earlier and middle years of the 20th century, and you deal with this here, and in a way, that's the horror of where these things can lead? i do think that the gene is the defining idea of this new century. it is the most important and potentially the most dangerous the capacity to control genetics, either throughwhatrwescheosef= how we