THE FUTURE PROMISES PLENTY OF EXCITEMENT

Your Nov. 8 article by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood, “The Genetic Labyrinth,” is exciting information. To think that eventually, though not in our lifetime nor in the lifetime of our children’s children, the world will become an acutely intelligent state is exhilarating. Eugenics is the future.

When other life forms from foreign galaxies join ours, we will have the capacities to compete and to gain the status of a superpower of the known universe. Money will be powerless; only information will determine one’s future.

With genetic identification, we will be able to communicate with the worlds beyond us, to control the living tissue of life.

If DNA can be identified, taken apart and eventually reproduced, we will have indeed captured the mystical essence of intelligent life. It is revolutionary and fantastic and should not be stigmatized and capitalized on by the savage insurance pigs and federal legislation.

PEGGY BRUEN

Hollywood