Biology and Informatics: Waiting for the Third Breakthrough?

... of the history of mankind presented in the cult animated television series of the mid-1990s Shinseiki Evangelion ( Neon Genesis Evangelion ), earthlings will face another apocalypse in 2015, prepared by scientists involved in genomics, cloning and bioinformatics. The authors call it the Third Impact. In the middle of the last century, Professor Igor Tamm, a distinguished physicist and a Nobel Prize winner, argued that the coming century would be the century of biology, just as the 20th century was ...