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Perhaps most important, artificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving humanity the power to reshape and reengineer life.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
At the center of this wave sits the realization that DNA is information, a biologically evolved encoding and storage system.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The environment typically exhibits a range of regularities or niches, that can be exploited by different action sequences or strategies.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Just as there are physicists who will tell you that everything that happens can ultimately be explained by physics alone (it can’t), and chemists who tell you that in the end biology is just chemistry (it isn’t), so by asserting the primacy of the gene, geneticists are establishing an intellectual pecking order when they attribute more to genes tha
... See morePhilip Ball • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
RNA was discovered to be the secret power source behind the ribosome, the “mothership” in our cells that reads the code contained in messenger RNAs and then uses it to construct the proteins that power so much of life.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.”4