Genesis Machine: Synthetic biology will allow us to program living organisms like computers

Synthetic biology is the ability to engineer the substrates that makes us. We live in a big ball of biology floating in space and we have very limited ways to work with this stuff.

What happens when a human mind has instantaneous access to computation and information on the scale of the internet and the cloud? It’s almost impossible to imagine, but researchers are already in the early days of making it happen. As the central general-purpose technologies of the coming wave, AI and synthetic biology are already entangled, a spi

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