} Perhaps what is most worrisome is that our genetic risks are occult, hidden; attributes that others could know even as we remain ignorant about them. Here lurks an image of genetic information as a mysterious, powerful, and inexorable force that will dominate and control our futures. ~ —Thomas Murray, “Genetic Exceptionalism and ‘Future Diaries,’” 1999
} Somewhere in a medical laboratory, there may be a scientist who knows far more about you than you do yourself. ~ —Business week, 15 April 2002