linkedin post 2019-10-21 03:35:54
IT HAS STARTED. “Biology can be hacked. And it is being hacked, every day.” https://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-21 03:37:06
DNA HACKING. "Mapped on to computing's timeline, biological hacking is still in its early stages: roughly, we're in 1979. DNA hackers are still innocent, even playful. But this innocence is unlikely to last long." http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/06/feature-bio-crime/the-bio-crime-prophecy View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-21 03:38:06
DNA IS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. “And hackers are going to love DNA. Fundamentally, DNA is just a programming language for living tissues. DNA hackers will write programs for living cells to run, just like computer hackers write programs for computers to run. Today’s most leading-edge scientists have only started doing this, and there is no telling where it will go.” http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/04/28/how-future-hackers-will-target-your-dna/ View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-21 03:40:08
PROGRAMMING LIFE. “Science has evolved to the point where human beings can write DNA code as well. As a result, thousands of scientists, known as genetic engineers, are programming living things directly.” https://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-21 03:41:05
LOW BARRIER. ‘In fact, advanced genetic engineering can now be done with a just a few weeks of training, a laptop and a credit card.” http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/06/feature-bio-crime/the-bio-crime-prophecy View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-21 03:41:55
LUNATICS INVITED. “Biological engineering could become as common as software engineering, bringing millions of new developers into the field. Lunatics must be expected.” http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/06/feature-bio-crime/the-bio-crime-prophecy View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-22 03:56:38
BIO-PAPARAZZI. “The vast amounts of personal data available might catalyse the emergence of "bio-paparazzi", who would swoop on restaurants and hotels to source samples of celebrity DNA, or search through archived medical or laboratory samples.” http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/06/feature-bio-crime/the-bio-crime-prophecy View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-22 03:59:05
NATURAL SELECTION ALGORITHM. "Almost twenty years ago...John Holland minted "the genetic algorithm", a means by which the rules of natural reproduction, particularly natural selection, could be used to literally evolve computer programs. The results can be viewed as organisms." https://lnkd.in/dJpC_P3 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-22 04:01:13
KARL SIMS (more later): "Uses a parallel supercomputer to evolve not only textures for his graphic creations, but entire images, all generated by natural selection." https://lnkd.in/dJpC_P3 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-10-22 04:03:33
IN SILICO EVOLUTION. “We propose a novel class of formal dynamical systems, which are referred to as self-programming or constructive. We believe that these systems form natural models for functional self-organization in prebiotic and proto-biological systems. We shall use the computer as a ''test-tube'' to follow the dynamics of these systems and in particular investigate their emergent functional properties." (1991). https://lnkd.in/dWGaP8C View in LinkedIn