The document discusses how genetics provides a cultural perspective for seeing the unseen productive engines of nature, like seeing a grainy shadow on a sonogram as a potential little girl. It notes that genetics is not just about machines and devices, which become obsolete, but about understanding potential in what is unseen. The theme is that seeing what is unseen leads to opportunities.

1. Quote “ Genetics, you see, is a cultural point of view. It’s not a matter of weird machines, the sequencers and chromatographs and so forth. Those mere devices quickly become obsolete. It’s a matter of seeing the once-secret productive engines of nature(…). It’s like seeing a grainy shadow on a sonogram and understanding its potential as a little girl.” Theme Seeing what is unseen leads to opportunities.