we are living , quite literally , in the golden age of science that was predicted by the geneticist gunther stent in the hippie days of the sixties when he was a professor at university of california at berkeley in his book , the coming of the golden age.2 ( historical sidebar : in this book , stent was one of the first geneticists to notice the remarkable similarity of the genetic code of dna to the life code developed in the ancient chinese book , the i ching or book of changes , but thats another story . )