Iowahawk spots a disturbing trend.
18 January, 2008
Observations on Laziness and Efficiency
It’s a good point that the latter can be mistaken for the former.
Atomically-precise Manufacturing
It’s coming, and DNA will be a tool.
Still, he says, a few years ago audience members laughed when he said he wanted to create a compiler to automate the process of encoding desired functions into DNA sequences. “Our field has now progressed to the point where the real question is not whether it can be done, but how far it can be pushed.”