The book was good when I read it at the time. What you don't want to created a self replicating bacteria which included such an enzyme. if it gets out it would wreck havoc. There is much less wrong with the concept of brewing up batches of an enzyme that you can dump on plastics to dissolve them when desired So Designer Enzymes? Probably good to great. Designer bacteria? Possibly really really bad

I couldn't disagree more... I see iPhones EVERYWHERE and given the amount of talking people do about them, I think it's fair to say it's the ONLY thing people currently compare against. Palm? Dead. RIM? Alive but really a totally different market. Symbian? Boring. Windows Mobile? DOA. The proof to me was last week on an airplane to California. In a row of 5 seats, 4 of the row occupants had iPhones out during the flight (including me)