A recently published book by Martyn Amos entitled ‘Genesis Machines’ takes a futuristic look at the science of biocomputing. Apparently, some large corporations are looking beyond the microchip to computer systems which replicate the way the DNA stores and passes on information.
When some scientists were told of this development they asked if such machines would be capable of unscrambling an egg. A serious problem as scrambling an egg reorganises the protein of the DNA and cannot, it seems, be reversed.
I was struck by the anology with organisational change. Some organisations appear to change infrastructure without realising the basic components of the infrastructure they are changing. Perhaps, if we do learn how to unscramble an egg, it may have some useful implications for organisational development. Unfortunately, Amos tells us, the first biocomputers of which he talks could be centuries in the future.
