IMAGES AND REVERSALS When the World Plague was Stopped by a Digital Artist " T i ~ : ~ r u of humanity and mlcrobe~ likely will unfold as e@~.odes of a Thomas G. West O u r W i t s versusTheir Genes It is our wits against their genes - - and their fast evolution. And it will always be so. We now understand that we can never live without the microbes and that they are essential to our lives and our world. In addition, latterly we have learned to think more in terms of ecology than warfare.Yet we now also know that we can never stop finding new ways to protect ourselves from their occasional pathological outbreaks (and our own stupidity). We can never adapt through our own genes as quickly as they can - so we must find other ways. We must use our wits...and we can never stop. When I read Joshua Lederberg's wonderful short essay in Science on how we have come to understand the fundamental nature of infectious disease, I was immediately reminded of the Wired story excerpted here. This story has stayed with me, returning to my mind from time
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When the world plague was stopped by a digital artist
West, Thomas G.
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, Volume 34 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 2000
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