The potential for vast post-transcriptional control exists: mammalian mRNAs contain extensive untranslated regions and their genomes encode many hundreds of RNA binding proteins and non-coding RNAs.
Rejecting the austere, logical galactic empires envisioned in the sci-fi golden age, Iain M Banks developed the concept of the Culture, a vast post-human utopian society, organised by a class of machine demigods known as the Mind.
Only after the fact, when a Russian disinformation campaign had already tainted the 2016 Presidential election, did the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, another vast post-9/11 creation, disclose the Kremlin's interference.
But the latest sign that the jobs of the present are different from the jobs of the past is harder to read – namely, the vast post-recession growth in self-employment.
James Bryant Conant, Harvard's president from 1933 to 1953, opened up scholarships to academic merit, and the vast post-war expansion of higher education extended Conant's meritocratic principle to millions of students.
The debate began with talk of using Japan's vast post-office savings to prop up the stockmarket: the authorities might use them to buy shares directly a return to the notorious "price-keeping operations" of the early 1990s.
Ms. Warner returned to the estate with the idea of "Happy Days" (suggested by Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theater), explaining that they planned a faithful production with a few small changes, like transforming the set from a small mound to a vast, post-apocalyptic landscape that looks like the charred remains of an environmental disaster.
They are part of a vast post-colonial diaspora — uprooted, often recruited, and for the most part unwelcome, unassimilated, and poor — and in France today they are also part of a social revolution: "the war between Islamic fundamentalism and secular fundamentalism," as people on both sides say.
"By announcing that precipitously, you take off the table our best leverage". Young people, women, and city-dwellers in Afghanistan fear that Trump will hastily abandon them and the country's vast, post-2001 improvements in education, health care, and basic human rights.
Since retiring as mayor, Goodman has opened his own place, Oscar's Beef, Booze and Broads in the Plaza Hotel, overlooking the enclosed and redeveloped Fremont Street, which resembles a kind of vast, post-modern take on London's Smithfield Market.
