The other day I read about the amazing gradient between the squid’s “Ginsu knife”-like beak and the gelatin skin that somehow holds it on. (One thing that’s not mentioned in the article is just how small that beak is, about the size of a baseball, making the transition in density all the more impressive.) During this hokey consulting seminar I’m attending today—which explains the longer, rambling posts—the instructor mentioned the Johnny Mnemonic idea that someday we’ll have USB-type jacks in the back of our necks to dump learning materials directly, which I always thought would really need the same kind of attachment. Maybe those people stricken with mysterious wire growths represent nature’s samples of adapting our bodies to some cybernetic evolution.
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