Idoru (Bridge Trilogy, #2)

by William Gibson

“Passengers who've cleared security may be subject to noninvasive DNA sampling,

He'd come to Slitscan from DatAmerica, where he'd been a research assistant on a project code named TIDAL.

the warm god-flesh of the anointed.

“It's not crazy. It's something to do with how I process low-level, broad-spectrum input. Something to do with pattern-recognition.