CS的高帅富们总是不忘了黑生物一把

Thinking in Java 第三版的前言开头几段用欲扬先抑的文学手法讲了这么一件事：
老兄Todd从EE跳到CS当码农，不过笔者告诉他21世纪是生命科学的世纪。未来生命科学有广阔前景，计算机显得无足轻重。不过此时笔者意识到自己的说法有点科幻小说了...

不过，在第四版就把这些黑生物的说法删掉了。
也许是最近在北美找工作发现相比ME之类普通工科专业，CS过分景气导致我过于敏感吧，能发现这种春秋文笔。sigh~

原文引用见下：
“I suggested to my brother Todd, who is making the leap from hardware into programming, that the next big revolution will be in genetic engineering.

We’ll have microbes designed to make food, fuel, and plastic; they’ll clean up pollution and in general allow us to master the manipulation of the physical world for a fraction of what it costs now. I claimed that it would make the computer revolution look small in comparison.

Then I realized I was making a mistake common to science fiction writers: getting lost in the technology (which is of course easy to do in science fiction). An experienced writer knows that the story is never about the things; it’s about the people. Genetics will have a very large impact on our lives, but I’m not so sure it will dwarf the computer revolution (which enables the genetic revolution)—or at least the information revolution. ...”