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"You're not just a user anymore. You're the infrastructure." This fundamental shift transforms the relationship between humans and technology. We're no longer simply using tools - we're becoming the substrate through which those tools operate.

The phenomenon, called spontaneous kinematic self-replication, has been seen before in other kinds of molecular machines and models, but never before in living multicellular systems like the xenobots.

Within the next decade, we will need to make important decisions: whether to program novel viruses to fight diseases, what genetic privacy will look like, who will “own” living organisms, how companies should earn revenue from engineered cells, and how to contain a synthetic organism in a lab.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on March 20 that will facilitate the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, taking a step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge.

Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine. It is a living system. When we attempt to rebuild the ecosystem , we’re making a category error. We’re confusing the software for the ecological process unfolding around it.

Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine.

It is essential to recognize that expertise is not the same thing as having a credential—like a college degree, a PhD, or an MD

nstead, I would rather see us conduct studies, repeatedly, to learn of our processes are efficient. I would like to see us incentivize reproducibility. And then, if we are able to deliver, I would like to see the percent of funding going to science increase. I believe that in a working society, 10% of health care spending should be on medical resea... See more

Of course not. Self important people giving out someone else's money rarely study their own processes. If study sections are no better than lottery, that would mean a lot of NIH study section officers would no longer need to work hard from home half the day, freeing up money for one more grant.