The Loss of Genetic Innocence Physics was the science of the 20th century. Biology is the science of the 21st century.
Biology is the basic metaphor of the new civilization.
Bionomics is literally the merger of biological and economic theory, or the coming together of the world of the born and the world of the made. Everything is becoming more biological, even economic systems. The more technology is friendlier to humans, the more biological it becomes. It also gave them intelligence and senses, making the need less for human operators. In the Information Era , the primary economic resource is no longer land, or labor, or capital, but knowledge.