When I cast my “Roanoke” video in the early 20th century, I forgot something.
People knew what “fingerprints” were.
And although they didn’t know about other identification techniques, they knew what faces, irises, and voices were.
But they didn’t have a conception of DNA, which wasn’t universally recognized until the early 1950s.
Hence I had to represent that biometric modality as a weird, colorful dream.
