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not sure if it qualifies as technology: - nicolas schabanel team works on molecular DNA programming, they had game of life capable structures made of DNA tiles
by agumonkey 4y ago
not sure if it qualifies as technology:
- nicolas schabanel team works on molecular DNA programming, they had game of life capable structures made of DNA tiles. The mentioned being capable of transpiling tiny lambda calculus expressions but were stuck (this was in 2013~) due to thermal degradation on long programs. His courses are on dailymotion.
- michael levin morphogenesis / developmental biology research: dude revived 50s~ ideas with gap junctions and cell levels "information processing" .. he ended up regrowing a second head on a larva after reprogramming cell messaging to alter the natural regeneration process. He was in a lot of interviews/podcasts in the last months.
- jcims 4y agoI truly feel there’s going to be some kind of industrial revolution with DNA or derivative based manufacturing.
- leesec 4y agoSeconding Michael Levin, that guy is doing some incredible stuff
- agumonkey 4y agoIt made me feel something very very new, a blend of infinite "power" at reach and at the same time something that could really break sanity and ethics forever.
- HideousKojima 4y agoIt definitely comes straight out of sci-fi at least. In the original Deus Ex, I think when you first break into the Versalife offices in Hong Kong, you can overhear an employee talking about their universal constructors (basically 3d printers that work at the atomic level). The employee mentions one of his friends created Conway's Game of Life with buckyballs. Edit: nevermind it's a Versalife employee at a nearby bar/club, not in the offices themselves.
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoMichael levin's work is indeed outstanding.