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CONVERGENCE of AI, robotics, programmable material and synthetic biology is absolutely inevitable and unstoppable. As we learn to make organs on a chip, including proto-brains, the joining of biology with machines is not far away. View in LinkedIn

THE NEW SMART CITY. "The bacterial power of cooperation is manifested by their ability to develop large colonies of astonishing complexity." https://lnkd.in/eFQS2HD View in LinkedIn

"BACTERIA, long perceived as simple creatures, are now recognized as smart beasts that can conduct intricate social life while using sophisticated social language, one that we have only recently begun to decode." Good article. https://lnkd.in/eFQS2HD View in LinkedIn

What would the swarm intelligence of microbes be interested to Google, given the chance? View in LinkedIn

HARNESS THE BUGS. "Microbes mediate all the important element cycles on earth...they form clouds, break down rocks, deposit minerals, fertilize plants, condition soils and clean up toxic wastes." Is it not time to hook these super-capable creatures up to some of our advanced programmable materials and artificial intelligence, and see what happens? https://lnkd.in/eYfQSpk View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL NUTRIENT CYCLES of enormous magnitude are driven by microbes, and remain at equilibrium. Microbes contain hundreds of giga-tons of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and fix 85% of the global nitrogen annually, and 50% of global oxygen. Stewards of planet earth. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3954078/ View in LinkedIn

MICROBIAL ENGINES. "Virtually all nonequilibrium electron transfers on Earth are driven by a set of nanobiological machines composed largely of multimeric protein complexes associated with a small number of prosthetic groups. These machines evolved exclusively in microbes early in our planet's history yet, despite their antiquity, are highly conserved." Interesting high level view. https://lnkd.in/eajxV_c View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING ON SYMBIOSIS. "In 2001, a study of Nasonia wasps conducted ... suggested that microbes influence the evolution of their hosts more often than scientists had expected." Symbiotic microbes direct wasp species formation. https://lnkd.in/e8ug98X View in LinkedIn

ELECTRICAL BACTERIA. "On average, in each cubic centimeter of sediment tested, they found 40 million cells of this type of bacteria, an amount they calculate could form 117 meters of super thin cable." Future computer or electrical device. https://lnkd.in/e5W32zq View in LinkedIn

BACTERIA DRIVING SPECIES FORMATION? "Gut microbes in fruit flies can rapidly change the insects’ mating behaviors, often a precursor to the development of new species. In hyenas, bacteria synthesize many of the chemical compounds animals use to communicate, and changes to the microbes might have helped to push populations apart." Microbes directing species formation. https://lnkd.in/e8ug98X View in LinkedIn