The hybrid is a fascinating thing. It finds its form in the overlapping of two separate and often unexpected uses to create a final product that is more than the sum of its parts. A biological hybrid is the result of cross breeding two different taxa to respond to an environmental condition. Also it is used to select traits from an existing group of animals or plants. 

Recently form has been the result of design hybridization. Now that we can smooth symbolic shapes into surface treatments there is the continued adherence to misconceiving hybridization as the unifying of two distinct objects. The Manimal, in its ability to combine the recognizable features of man and lion and morph those features into a unified strange whole is the perfect example of this misconception. 

Today we can imagine a world where hybrids are not just formal experiments that re-figure existing programs. Program itself is in a sense the genetic code that effects the result of hybridization. New program mixed with old, new technologies mixed with old, technology and program, form and function, overlapping and juxtaposing can result in the hybridizing of those old codes.