When I first read EoC, I realized that eventually we were going to create methods to rapidly sequence every kind of DNA on the planet, build a massive DNA database, and use it to completely decode the programming language of biology. Then, once we knew exactly how to express ANYTHING in DNA programming, that was going to be merged with a simplified computer interface which would allow high level design of DNA strands, rapid creation of bio-organic tissue, and create a Genesis Machine. Ask it for a Unicorn, and it builds you one.

Between BGI’s Sequencing farm, and Tinkercell, that day is looking a lot closer.

The paradigm-shift rate is doubling every decade. — Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence. — Bill Gates

YouTube Ray Kurzweil: How technology’s accelerating power will transform us
A. The spatial and temporal resolution of brain scanning is doubling every year.
B. We will succeed in reverse-engineering the human brain in the 2020s.
C. If you go to the year 2029 we will have the full maturity of these trends.
D. Progress in technology is exponential — not linear.

Is comprehensive data collection with rapidly evolving technology now the fundamental paradigm of science?

Is proving the validity of Chapter 9 of Wolfram’s “A New Kind of A Science” merely a matter of detecting paradigm-breaking photons on a huge scale and then using such data to develop M-theory?

They live at least 10 times longer than other rodents of their size. It would be interesting to see how their genes differ from other mammals.

Bats would also be interesting.