Genesis Machine: Synthetic biology will allow us to program living organisms like computers
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Genesis Machine: Synthetic biology will allow us to program living organisms like computers
basic ingredients for systems that could devise and improvise solutions to living that are emergent, versatile, adaptive, and robust. The new picture dispels the long-standing idea that living systems must be regarded as machines.
Philip Ball • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
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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.
Bryan Johnson • Fireside Chat: A Plan for Humanity with Bryan Johnson
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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as we become more knowledgeable about where and when to intervene in life’s processes, we can start to think of life itself as something that can be redesigned. Efforts to do so systematically began with genetic engineering in the 1970s, but that typically only worked well for the simplest forms of life, such as bacteria. What’s more, it was limite
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