Monday, December 6, 2010

Synthetic biology and evolution : The New Yorker

A Life of Its Own
Where will synthetic biology lead us?
by Michael Specter September 28, 2009

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/28/090928fa_fact_specter#ixzz17P1A...

Kevin Kelly on what technology wants | TEDxAmsterdam

God Is the Machine

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS 0. AND THEN THERE WAS 1. A MIND-BENDING MEDITATION ON THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF DIGITAL COMPUTATION.

By Kevin Kelly

link: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/holytech.html

50 Posts About Cyborgs

September 2010 was the 50th Anniversary of the coining of the term 'cyborg'. Over the course of the month, this site was updated 50 times with links to material — most of it new — celebrating 50 years of one of the 20th Century's more enduring concepts.