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"The permanent government now is the anchorpeople. They don't get elected, and year after year they're responding emotionally to this or that."
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In this novel, Bear describes the future of the children created in Darwin's Radio. There is a lot of future thinking about the study of microbiology; it comes up as the protagonists try to study an illness that affects these children.
In looking around for anything else on this item, I did find what appears to be a (failed) computer-aided design product called an Ideator.
I found a very cool tool called ProtoShop (nicely backformed on Photoshop, the image manipulation tool). Here's what it does:
Our work focuses on providing an interactive, visual tool - dubbed ProtoShop - to rapidly create many initial configurations for a given amino acid sequence, which are then submitted to an optimization algorithm...
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