Perhaps, if this approach ends up working, not only could it be used for treating diseases but possible could be used to prevent diseases by somehow encoding them into genes. Not sure if you would do that just for folks who have a history of a disease or offer such a solution to a larger group much in the way we do inoculation for disease.

I have almost no idea what you are trying to say but I am sure you mean well.

should have read "Apple has not done well in the past WITHOUT Jobs . . ."

And, Apple has lost Steve Jobs and when his legacy of ideas is used up, I don't see Apple doing well. Apple has not done well in the past with Jobs and they won't in the future. Jobs was Apple. Jobs is gone. Apple will not continue to innovate and bring out "game changer" products because they lost the guy who envisioned those products and knew how to bring them to market.

I'm not sure it could be demonstrated that Apple ". . is still five years ahead of everyone else." Five years is a great deal of time in the technology world.

Excellent point. I stopped watching TV in 2005 and I don't watch it online. I don't miss it all. I love Internet radio (I have one on my nightstand) and audiobooks and surfing the web. I teach psychology for a living and we talk about this in social psychology quite a bit. It's a great discussion and I do know that there are some great aspects to television but it still isn't a preference for me (anymore).

It would could make textbooks more dynamic and update more often. I would also like the ability to mix & match among text books to create a custom text book - especially for my General Psyc classes and my Abnormal Psyc classes. Not sure how that would work with copyright, etc., but it would be great for my students.

So far eBooks have not varied much from the formatting of printing books. I like the idea of taking advantage of the technology available for eBooks and perhaps making books more interesting or with more content, etc. I teach psychology at two colleges and I have noticed that some of the publishers of text books are beginning to do this (Pearson and McGrawhill are two).

One gene and probably just one trait. How much can you infer from a single trait other than you have at least one ingredient for a recipe for whatever skill or gift is desired.