Genes and Technology

For then, since gold was soft and blunted easily, men would deem

It useless, but bronze was a metal held in high esteem.

Now the opposite: bronze is held cheap, while gold is prime.

And so the seasons of all things roll with the round of time:

What once was valuable, at length is held of no account,

While yet the worth of that which was despised begins to mount...

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Book 5, lines 1272-7

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