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Please link to the evidence of progress in the direction of 'genetic synthesis' meeting 'nano technology'

• jacquesm 16y ago
  At your service: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7245/abs/nature08016.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7245/abs/nature08...
  • imp 16y ago
    And that sounds like what the author of the OP said here: "I’m willing to bet, at some nebulous point in the future, long after Drexler and I are dead, someone may eventually develop a technology sort of vaguely like what he imagines." It's been a while since I read Drexler's books, but if I remember correctly he alluded to more mechanical processes than biological ones. The article you linked to is purely biology and not really what Drexler was arguing for.
    • jacquesm 16y ago
      No, it's not purely biology. It is using biological elements to synthesize artificial constructs with exact mechanical dimensions. By analogy, when a carpenter takes a tree and cuts the tree into boards that's engineering, not biology even if the raw materials were provided by biology. And when you then use those boards to build a house, that's engineering too.
  • anigbrowl 16y ago
    A pdf for those without a nature sub: http://www.shawndouglas.com/publications/19458720.pdf http://www.shawndouglas.com/publications/19458720.pdf Figure 4 is the takeaway: assembly of simple components into complex structures.