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THE LAWS OF SOFTWARE PROCESS
Perhaps readers will have their own views of what is and is not knowl-
edge. I have to use some word to describe the subject of this book, and the
word “knowledge” is the closest one I can find to the meaning I intend.
A Brief History of Knowledge Storage
DNA
We do not know how it started. There is spectroscopic evidence of the
presence of free radical and small molecules of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
nitrogen, and silicon — the elements that make up organic materials and,
ultimately, life — that float in the spaces between planets and between
stars. These particles are certainly widely spaced, but then space itself is
wide, and the catchment area swept out by our solar system and our planet
is large. In the approximately ...