Word: silicon
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...which in the corporal world is so elusive as to often be downright fictitious. Though the scenery undoubtedly changes with the century, (by societal standards, "making it" is no longer measured by indoor plumbing and a fashionable buggy, but by a Mercedes and a company in the Valley--Silicon, of course), the latent content of the Dream remains the same. It's a rags-to-riches story, where ambition and fate collide in the Promised Land and instantly propel some lucky Nobody to the status of a Very Wealthy Somebody...
...divide between the old and new guards in Miami is that many if not most of the latter were born in the U.S. While their parents still dream of Havana, the kids are far more concerned with using their computer and business skills to turn Miami into "Silicon Beach." That indigenous culture has been dubbed Generation n, after a Miami-based magazine run by Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That...
...years old, I don't own a house, I don't own anything! I have a van with 170,000 miles on it. I own a bunch of albums. One of my roommates from college is now almost a billionaire. He became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, and now he's going to be worth a billion in a couple of years. And God bless him, it's great. That's what he wanted to do, he set out, and was in the right place at the right time. When I'm hanging out with him, I think, "Goddamn...
...will this revolution go? Will we ever understand the brain as well as we understand the heart, say, or the kidney? Will mad scientists or dictators have the means to control our thoughts? Will neurologists scan our brains down to the last synapse and duplicate the wiring in a silicon chip, giving our minds eternal life...
...these three premises together, and the implication is clear: the dino genes are still out there. So throw your mind forward a few decades, and try out the following screenplay. A bunch of bioinformatics nerds in Silicon Valley, looking for an eye-catching project to showcase the latest IPO, decide to try to re-create the genome of a dinosaur. They bring together a few complete bird genomes--complete DNA texts from the cells of different birds--and start mapping the shared features. The result is a sort of prototype genome for a basic bird...