Love and hate are opposite sides of the same coin, you know — both passions. You can flip from one to the other — but not to indifference - Daniel Suarez

For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

Even the ruins left behind by bankrupt fossil fuel companies continue to pollute. There are twenty-nine million abandoned, uncapped oil and gas wells around the world — each one of them spewing the emissions of fifteen hundred automobiles. Sealing them would require trillions and take decades.

I think that’s what the Huli jing discovered — not only how to edit DNA, but how to turn genes on and off on demand, not simply write them into the chain. After all, computer code doesn’t do anything unless you execute it.