Sublime

” “It's a wonderful thing to be clever, and you should never think otherwise, and you should never stop being that way. But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost—swallowed up in the ocean—unless

how to write algorithms that could change their code and get smarter as they develop. We now call this evolutionary programming.

Comme l’écrivit Gruber, les activités d’un créateur « peuvent paraître de l’extérieur comme un ménage déroutant » mais il, ou elle, est capable de « relier » chaque activité à une des entreprises en cours. « Sur certains plans, a conclu Gruber, les plus grandes œuvres de Charles Darwin sont des compilations interprétatives de faits au préalable

In these past two hundred thousand years, humans have incubated a dataome. That dataome has, as evidenced across the pages of this book, become increasingly intertwined with our survival and our behavior as a species. By several measures, including the comparison of global NOPS and FLOPs capacities, and the rise of our metalworld’s resource

In our view, it’s no longer a question of might. Advances in biotechnology are quickly and radically changing the scientific landscape. We are entering a world where imagination is the only brake on biology, where dedicated individuals can create new life from scratch. Today, when a difficult problem is mentioned, a commonly heard refrain is,