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i think it would be much easier to just grown the bamboo into the frame, a la the square watermelon. But I digress: we are many, many decades away from being ab
by hyperbovine 11y ago
i think it would be much easier to just grown the bamboo into the frame, a la the square watermelon. But I digress: we are many, many decades away from being able to do things like that. Possibly centuries. Even programming single-celled organisms to assemble simple hydrocarbons is barely within our reach, at present.
- astazangasta 11y agoConsider how we went from nothing to cell phones in a century; this is not that far away.
- hyperbovine 11y agoNot sure what you imagine the early 20th century to have been like ... I mean, general relativity just turned 100. Anyways, in terms of our understanding the genetic architecture of even basic traits like height (to say nothing of complicated ones like the morphology of a bamboo shoot) we're practically in the Dark Ages. I know it's a bitter pill to swallow for the "Singularity is near" crowd.