Clickbait aside, I think there are vast possibilities for DNA to be used as a fabrication tool. Imagine a seed you could plant and it would rapidly grow in the

Clickbait aside, I think there are vast possibilities for DNA to be used as a fabrication tool. Imagine a seed you could plant and it would rapidly grow in the shape of a house, using nothing but sunlight, atmospheric CO2 and a bit of fertilizer. Also, by controlling the expression of biological features you could create bioelectronic hybrids that leverage the best of both worlds. Imagine you ship to Mars a few pounds of SoC silicon dies, then grow them into an army of elephant sized drones. They faithfully execute commands with the precision of robots, yet require no maintenance or consumables, living off the land with self-healing capacity. I believe the idea is not using DNA for general purpose programming as much as controlling biological systems using the paradigms of the software world.