Earth and other artificial planets

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Earth and other artificial planets

Self-organization and Programmed Self-Destruction

"If you are really going to make really complex systems, it might be stupid to use a test tube to do it, when you could use a bug instead and engineer it. It might also be stupid to use an engineered bug, when you could use a human being instead and engineer it"

Advances in biochemistry and molecular genetics are producing the tools to isolate these biological components, reverse engineer their function, and synthesize complex molecules and devices that combine the natural and the artifi cial. Viral motors could propel nanobots. Solar cells could generate energy using photosynthetic proteins from plants.

The next phase will be to build a biological platform from the bottom up. In 2005, J.Craig Venter, the biologist who famously led the commercial effort to sequence the human genome, launched Synthetic Genomics to develop industrial synthetic biology applications, particularly bio-factories for ethanol and hydrogen production.

It is not just that we are not alone. It is that this planet is not our planet, and that we are someone else’s rat labs. We are just bio-factories.

people may pursue hormone and antioxidant treatments to protect themselves from disease and reduce the ravages of aging on the body. Artifi cial organs, tissue engineering, and neuroprosthetics will line the shelves of the human body shop. As the safety and effi cacy of cochlear implants, robotic appendages, and bionic eyes are proven, the technologies will slowly shift from the realm of “treatments” to “enhancements.”

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