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Figure 13.1
 
The DNA SynthoComp.
The future holds a synthesis of ideas and
technologies that we cannot comprehend. The one link to the past and present
is that 
 
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actively be addressed. We hope that this book has made a contribution to
that effort, and we invite the forensic community, and the larger field of
forensic science to continue in that endeavor.
Our contribution to The CACNews Millennium issue is reproduced here.
 
The Purloined NanoBioSampler
by
Norah Rudin, Keith Inman and Peter Barnett
(first published in 
 
The CACNews
, 1st quarter, 2000)
 
he year is 2050.
Forensic science has finally been professionalized and unified.
After completing their decade of criminalistics post-doc training, all crimi-
nalists are now required to take and pass the comprehensive IKR (Interna-
tionale Kriminalistiks Registry) examinations which traces its origins back to the old
American GKE. Not everyone is happy with this situation.
 
2:00 AM, Sunday morning
A crime is reported in the Berzerkely computer laboratory in a remote region of the
an alternate reality called California. The two scientists responsible for continuing
development of the DNASynthoComp computer have been found dead in the lab-
oratory. It is a bloody scene, relatively uncommon in the 21
st
century, so all three
on-call criminalists are called to the scene. The coordinates of the scene are trans-
mitted directly to the integrated GPS units in each criminalist’s personal hover car,
so they get an extra 10 minutes of sleep on the way to the scene.