Artificial life. Designing and simulating new biological machines. Start with a microbe that eats PET and excretes methanol.
Followed relatively closely, I fear, by a new solution to Fermi’s Paradox.
]]>Charlie and all, another plot that won’t fly any more is “future society with a cure for cancer/death/diabetes/common-cold” etc. We know now that Big Pharma is real; we won’t get utopia, we get the healthy 0.1% and the rest of the population bled dry.
@51: I love that Doctorow piece which I’d not seen before.
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Americas funniest celebrity baby monitor camera videos.
I spoke about the risks at LCA Hobart on Jan in "The Internet of Scary Things", slides and video here: http://christopher.biggs.id.au/
]]>The TWIP story about hookworm posits that the post-civil-war reconstruction was significantly hampered by hookworm-induced lethargy.
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