The New Industrial Convergence

[ChromeGhost]

I figured I'd post an update in the comments of this video. Looks like biocomputers will arrive sooner then expected. Recently researchers created AND and NOT gates using biological components. Here are the articles.

[ChromeGhost]

@ChromeGhost I figured I'd post an update in the comments of this video. Looks like biocomputers will arrive sooner then expected. Recently researchers created AND and NOT gates using biological components. Here are the articles.

dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar­ticle-2050500/Biological-compu­ters-soon-reality-scientists-b­uild-basic-components-bacteria­-DNA.html

nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n­10/full/ncomms1516.html

[CMLaneLV]

Why is this guy pecking at the camera everytime he starts a new sentence..?

Creepy looking body language

[waseem1173]

@CMLaneLV it gets better lol watch the video with the audio muted.

[ballbag1171]

@ExplaingTheFuture actually gm is very very widespread and can be seen everywhere just look outside and look at the grass the common grass type was actually designed to be more reslient to drought although it was just breeding it is still gm just like the banana and the corn are designed. so are many common breed of many eaten animals like cow and there are actually many bio machines and many simple self arrare machine that if they are broken or slow they will go to staton that fix themautomatic

[evanplaice]

So, aside from the fact that you have a pretty good 3D artist who made a really creepy animation of a bio computer, you're missing some important points. First, genetic engineering is not new and, chances are, a portion of the food you ate today came from a GMO crop. It was a concern 10 years ago and it's one of the driving factors behind the organic food movement. Second, biocomputers are a long way off. First, we have to learn how to create nano structures, then life, then reproducible life.

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@evanplaice Thanks for this. I know GM is not new. However, it is not as widespread everywhere as you claim. For example, in Europe planting or selling GM crops and produce is banned -- so I am very sure that none of the food I ate today is GM. I totally agree that biocomputers are years away. However, the idea behind this video was to make people think about the issues ahead as technologies and hence industries start to converge . . .

[Syphered08]

@ExplainingTheFuture You are both wrong, we have been genitically engineering crops and animals since we first domesticated them, the only differences now are that, a) we are concious of what we are doing, b) now we can do it allot faster

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@Syphered08 Thanks for this. I totally accept that we have been taking steps to change plants and animals since agriculture began. However, the GM science of being able to do this gene-by-specific-gene is certainly new -- and something that is raising debate. Synthetic biology -- where we create new life from "BioBrick" components -- is also entirely new (see my synthetic biology video here).

[Syphered08]

@ExplainingTheFuture I agree that it is new methodology and I disagree with certain practices such as inserting artificial pesticides into the crops themselves but I also know (my background is population analytics) that due to decisions made in the past we now have very little choice (if we don't want civilisation to collapse) but to find new methods to make less land produce more food in less favorable environments.

[evanplaice]

Great, so we'll have nano robots capable of preventing all diseases and ailments that'll cost 50k/year or 25k/year with limited ocular advertisements. If you forget to pay your bills it will give you an extreme VD cocktail to ensure that only responsible people can still get laid.

[evanplaice]

Great, so we'll have nano robots capable of preventing all diseases and ailments that'll cost 50k/year or 25k/year with limited ocular advertising. If you forget to pay your bills it will give you an extreme case of genital warts to ensure that only responsible people can still get laid.

[shippyshiphead]

@evanplaice lmao. love the anti-capitalist jokes. I feel capitalism does not work for the benefit of all =P

[Thundralight]

check out Tomas Horn book of Enoch- we may be repeating the past

[EZevan1]

Science isn't the scary monster, people are. people who want to use the power of science to keep humanity enslaved. i think bio computers sound pretty sweet. but when it comes to transgenic manipulation i am against it because not only are the implications of our manipulation irreversible once they are released on the world. Also The businesses which are pioneering this technology are descended from the same businesses which funded the Nazis in world war 2. I.E. I.G farben.

[3tangle3]

Peer pressure on young people at university is making them loose focus easier than in the past...we need to assure this age group

[ExplainingTheFuture]

Yes, I totally agree.

[evanplaice]

@ExplainingTheFuture The abundance of free and easily accessible knowledge has lowered the barrier of entry for higher order knowledge to nearly nil. IE, college degrees are rapidly losing value and the caste is breaking. Unfortunately, it'll take another decade for industry to catch up. Don't believe me? I was studying Computer Science from MIT this morning in at home. BTW, when you said 'loose' I think you meant 'lose'.

[explainingcomputers]

@evanplaice I totally believe you. Knowledge is spreading into the cloud, and the educated will be those who choose to tap it, rather than those who can afford to enroll in colleges and universities. Many of the best bits of my lectures are already free on the web via this channel or my other one at ExplainingComputers. The trend is now unstoppable. Many academics don't seem to realise that the institutions they work for are becoming zombies.

[evanplaice]

@explainingcomputers Even though it's tragic for some, I'm glad to see it on the out. I would literally sit in class biting my nails in anticipation because my threshold for listening to an instructor preach theory is pretty low. Maybe it's because I've grown up in a more interactive age but I have a driving need to put that practical theory to use to prove to myself that it's true. Because of this I've never done well in the traditional setting. Hence my dislike for the system.

[evanplaice]

@explainingcomputers By bringing the whole world into the fold and sharing knowledge openly, the need for arbitrary (and often biased) tests and barriers of entry are no longer necessary. Everybody (save those who suffer from mental disorders) is capable of higher order thinking yet so many never get the chance to prove it because of the current system. I may be critical but I just wanted to thank you for sharing your ideas with the rest of us.

[LasereyedBlindman]

If you think science is some big scary monster thats gonna end mankind, then get the hell off your computer. While you at it throw out your cellphones and your pasteurized milk.

[3tangle3]

@LasereyedBlindman spread the word ..we can do anything in future .i have seen skin stem cells immortalised (non cancerous) as of 2009 :)

[ExplainingTheFuture]

This video is not about science being some big scary monster! :-) It is trying to say that boundaries between sciences and hence industries are going to fall, and that we need to start thinking about the wid implications of that. In general I'm a fan of science! :-)

[Thundralight]

@LasereyedBlindman it is not so much about the technology but how we choose to use it?? Look at what hitler did. We need to make sure we grow up first and but greed and self intrests behind us as you do not let a child play with matches.

[LasereyedBlindman]

@Thundralight I agree fully. There needs to be another renaissance. This one needs to pull us "Mentally" out of the dark ages and into an area were we can embrace each other with the will to do good with our inventions and ideas. This starts with not being afraid of progress.

[slevel100]

My nano had to go to a nursing home because of altsheimers .

[alwaysyouramanda]

if we use dna... like in nature, couldn't it mutate? for better OR worse!?

[ExplainingTheFuture]

There is that possibility! Life, after all, is perhaps just a controlled mutation? The convergence discussed in this video may not necessarily always be a good thing.

[grifonegro]

That will be a real catastrophe. This is the humanity doing the worse it can do: ignoring all the cosmic laws that put it here in this time and space and totally forgetting (or neglecting) its very purposes on this life.

This is so serious that those who assists us from above will have to interfere, and that will be the "end" that many foretold.

P.S.: before you ask me, no, i'm not nuts.

[ExplainingTheFuture]

I don't think you are nuts! :-) There are big issues here. And yet as the credit crunch has recently shown, human beings are very, very good at ignoring really serious possible futures -- perhaps beause it is easier to pretend that nothing "bad" will ever happen. Even though it does. Take a look also at my video here on biocomputing . . .

[3tangle3]

@grifonegro ahaha love yas

[jnpbunsinoinc]

unlikely, dna dosent normally mutate fast

[ScotchTapeWorm]

That biocomputer thing was pretty scary.

[3tangle3]

@ScotchTapeWorm i already seen one, it does not pulse like that though, its all scare stories like the train would blow your head of in the victorian times lol