22nd September 2005, 4:35 PM
Yeah, right down to people assuming too much about the technology. For example, obviously the DNA didn't limit the main character THAT much, or he would not have been able to overcome it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)