Now for something a little different…

I came across this article that blew my mind and scared the crap out of me at the same time. Its is titled Life 2.0 in Newseek Magazine.

Here is a quote that connected it to software development for me …

“We can now regard cells as ‘programmable matter’,” says Ron Weiss, a Princeton computer scientist who now writes genetic software for cells. Weiss is convinced that he will soon be able to “program cell behaviors as easily as we program computers.”

 The prospect of engineering new organisms from scratch opens up all sorts of possibilities — Good and bad.

I like to think more good than bad. The article mentions developing a “highly efficient biological organism that converts sunlight directly into a clean bio fuel” – now that is mind boggling.

Imagine a day when we can program cells and create new living entities with a programming language – Cell# maybe?

This one is going to take a while to sink in.

- M