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THE MIRACLE OF HORMONES

puts the information on paper. People have been using computers since
the 1980's; they are used at home and in the workplace and, since the mid
90's, the Internet has become a part of people's lives. If you read in a
newspaper one day that a computer has been built that was too small for
the eye to see, and that this computer was communicating with other
computers, your reaction would be quite different. Perhaps you would
not believe that this technology could be compacted to such a small size.
However, in real life there is a communications system with a technology
much more highly developed that this, working in an area too small for
the eye to see.
The fact that a message coming to a cell's antennae is transmitted at
great speed to the nucleus of the cell, and that a highly advanced technol-

Internet

Information is transmitted via the Internet to a personal comput-
er connected to a computer network. This computer sends the
information it receives to a printer that puts it on paper. For mil-
lions of years there has been a perfect communication system
in cells that functions in a way similar to the high technology
used by human beings today.

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