Ina Fried

http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=3712
Will O'Bryan
8/21/2008

Following the pattern of humanity and quite a few other species --
though by no means all -- computer technology has been largely born of
binary roots. In people, the XX and XY can combine to replicate
themselves in either of those two formats. With computers, the binary
has taken the simple options of 0 or 1 to heights that have changed
our world forever.