"For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role."
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"Move Aside, Sex", in The Edge Annual Question—2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?, January 2010
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