Words at Play : Top 10 Words of the '90s
"All told, genetic technology will give humankind an almost godlike power to improve its condition." From a 1992 Time article
about The Human Genome Project, a massive international collaboration to fully understand human DNA.
As a result of that project, which ran from 1990 to 2003, this decade saw unprecedented popular interest in what makes us who we are our
genetic material, or genome.