Monday, May 31, 2010

On the Possibility of Artificial Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/opinion/30sun3.html?th&emc=th

And maybe the creation of a slate wiper.

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Mycoplasma mycoides is neither a slate-wiper nor a synthetic cell.

I'm with David Baltimore on this one.

Orthoclase said...

This is how it always starts.

Some minor technological breakthrough that later goes horribly wrong.