The robot repeats the warning, counts to five, and shoots the guy dead. This is a very funny scene. Our bodies mirror machines and our minds switch off. In this new age of technology, cyberspace, virtual reality, and multimedia experiences have replaced the factory. The ultimate revenge of the information system comes when the system absorbs the very identity of the human personality, absorbing the opacity of the body, grinding the meat into information . . .
Information digests even the secret recesses of the caress.
We must see then, that our ultimate fear is of conversion into bits. We live in a time when we are in danger of being reduced to coded information. Take, for example, DNA testing. Consider, also, the Human Genome Project .