[It's] not hard to understand why the first generation raised in a fully computerized society might come to accept so readily the new concept of nature that is emerging. They are growing up using the computer to organize their entire environment. Is it any wonder, then, that they will come to believe that nature itself is organized by the same set of assumptions and procedures they themselves are using when they manipulate it? The point is, our new ideas about how nature operates are coming to mirror the new technological and economic relationships we are establishing with the natural world, providing a new generation the assurance that the way it's going about organizing its world is compatible with nature's own organizing design. -- Jeremy Rifkin, p.212, Biotech Century, 1998