linkedin post 2019-01-15 05:06:37

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LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS. "We believe it's now possible to program nearly every material to change shape and properties," says Skylar Tibbits, director of MIT’s Self-Assembly Laboratory. "Code", he says, will become the "language of materials" in the same way it is the language of machines today." https://lnkd.in/d6YRRJH View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-01-15 05:03:19

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INTRINSIC PROPERTIES. "Plants moving toward the sun, proteins folding into complex structures in response to their surroundings, molecules stacking themselves together to form a crystal. No external machinery directs these functions. Instead, the structure and shape is embedded in the material properties themselves—a wonder of the natural world." https://lnkd.in/d6YRRJH View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-01-17 04:23:18

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OTHER LIFE. "Other examples of “fundamentally different” organizations include those without spatially localized individuals, hierarchical organization, genotype-phenotype distinction, or, indeed, any symbolic representation scheme. Macroscopic self-reproducing machines (robots), perhaps living in colonies and exploiting local resources to maintain themselves and grow, might give rise to a significantly different set of organizational possibilities and constraints." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-01-15 04:59:14

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RUPTURED FABRIC. "Kurzweil extends Moore’s law to include technologies from far before the integrated circuit to future forms of computation. Whenever a technology approaches some kind of a barrier, he writes, a new technology will be invented to allow us to cross that barrier. He predicts that such paradigm shifts will become increasingly common, leading to “technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history”. https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-01-17 04:20:06

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NEED FOR GENES? "Eigen gave a strong argument that autocatalytic sets without genetic underpinning have a problem in principle with evolvability. No proof of this conclusion has been given, but examples to date of autocatalytic sets without replicable elements have failed to exhibit convincing evolution." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-01-15 04:52:48

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HUMAN REDESIGN. "Since the Big Bang, the universe has been in constant evolution and continuous transformation. First there were physical and chemical processes, then biological evolution, and finally now technological evolution. As we begin to ride the wave into human redesign, the destination is still largely unknown but the opportunities are almost limitless." https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn
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