As per a report from Harvard Medical School, amongst other contributing scientists, human beings are between 3 to 10 years away from attaining the ability to manufacture artificial life from scratch. Unlike genetic modification, which has grow into such fields as stem cell research and gene therapy, the concept of artificial life is the creation of DnA, or more specifically the addition of eight new bases (as opposed to the 4 genetic bases that make up all known life). Such an innovation may pave the way to a technological revolution, shifting human progression from mechanically-based technology to biologically-based technology. ....
Ok. I'm well aware that no one in my audience has read the New Jedi Order series, and therefore any joke made about the Yuuzhan Vong and their obsession with living technology would be lost on you. However, I will still put a Vong picture up and an extensive reference to them regardless. Why? Because I'm a dick. And futhermore, reverting to my most immature, prickish behavior is the only thing that can calm me as I read this story. I don't know about you, but every last word of that story scared the beejesus out of me. Because whats better than a television? A television that you have to feed squirrel meat to in order to keep it alive! And god knows how much I'd like my computer to have its own thoughts and feelings... so that I may forever destroy its sanity under mountains and mountains of deeply-disturbing/highly-erotic pornography.
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