Chapter 3 (Sydney Fischelis)





These artifacts all connected so strongly for me because they are tied together in a way I haven’t thought about before. DNA is basically the instruction manual for each individual human being. Some scientists even believe that DNA determines everything. These specific artifacts cannot be put in sequential order necessarily, obviously the computer and coding would be the most recent and DNA would be the last, but they are interconnected in the way of communication and information.
The DNA section of Chapter 3 in Techgnosis really got me thinking beyond any of the other sections. I wonder how deep we can dive into DNA to see the instructions that it gives us. It determines our phenotype, but does it determine our fate? Who we love, who we worship, what we want? Erik Davis stated that, "More specifically, DNA was described as a kind of alphabetic writing, a culturally specific media metaphor that nonetheless seems tough to avoid" (87). He also said that in the book The DNA Mystique, scholars said that "everything from your bad back to your mood swings is programmed by DNA" (88). This made me think of what limitations DNA has. Does it have any? Is it the answer for everything or just the beginning? 
With the continual advancement in technologies, our knowledge of language and computer coding and instructions is growing and deepening. I believe there is even artificial DNA that has been created for organisms. There may even be the possibility that technology is DNA of the new age, especially because of AI.

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