Life: gene-centric view. Craig Venter & Richard Dawkins (Moderator: John Brockman) Part 4

[BRussellspouts]

Brockman has an incredibly optimistic, almost utopian view of science. In 25 years things will not be radically different. There will be an educated elite of investigators and practitioners of biological science. There will be pseudo-intellects who denounce their work on the pretence of understanding it. And then there will be the great mass of unenlightened consumers, as saturated in religious beliefs and bigotry and primitive ideas as they are today.

[Ashitakaandsan]

"My vision of life is in a sense even more radical than that because I would like to regard the genomes of the giraffes and kangaroos and humans that you referred to as just another set of viruses in close knit societies, so, the gene pool I should say of giraffes or the gene pool of humans or the gene pool of kangaroos is a huge society of viruses,

[DraskyVanderhoff]

Something that would be great if we can send to other planets modified scout bacterias that can develop them self in an habitable planet , and when they grow in a complex predefined organism , send us back information about that planet using some kind of fast transmition system like quamtum entangling connection. I know it sounds crazy but the elements to do it exist right now , but obviouly we need to master them a lot more.

[KaraRvn]

@DraskyVanderhoff Actually Orson Scott Card wrote a novel about that; it's not as crazy as you might think. Advanced and theoretical, but not crazy. :-)

[DraskyVanderhoff]

@KaraRvn Thanks for the info :). I never said that is crazy , only that for many people this could sound crazy. Tell me if you know the name of the book , thanks again :) .

[KaraRvn]

@DraskyVanderhoff Awesomesauce! ^.^ I looked it up, Orson Scott Card wrote a series: "Ender's Game," "Speaker for the Dead," and "Xenocide." In the second one, "Speaker for the Dead," there is a fascinating kind of "scout virus." The third one I didn't find that interesting but the series seemed good overall. Hope you like it!

[dunnonuffink]

Thanks for uploading.

These vids already have the moment-in-history feel to them.

(Imagine: this might one day be a set source in some students' coursework!)

[KaraRvn]

@dunnonuffink Yes! I mean, a "moment in history" is the perfect way of describing it.

[gr1283]

John Brockman's comments are consistently useless.

[arumugamyau]

Thanks for uploading this video :)

[MotaroMKD]

Dawkins is da BEST

[TaNgLeD2121]

great vid