Technology is moving forward exponentially.
Just as it sounds, biocomputers, or biological computing, combine living elements with electronic ones, creating a neural pathway once reserved for only living organisms void of electronics.
Our computers are about to become living machines.
Our computers are about to become living machines.
Are you ready?
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Does technology dumb us down by allowing us to think less or does it make us smarter because information is more readily available or is the answer dependent upon how we utilize it?
How will you feel about owning a biocomputer?
What about becoming one?
Will these technologies replace us or become us or will we become the technology?
At what point of integration are we no longer human or is it no longer technology?
How close do you believe we are to singularity?
What moral issues are there?
What kind of life form is a biocomputer if it has a thinking brain?
Will you see them as a computer or as a living thing?
Will you think of different biocomputers in different ways, say, by their appearance?
Will we, in effect, become slave owners?
Do you think these are issues that you will be faced with in your lifetime or is it still a long way off by your estimation?
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At the centre of the model is a 1.5 square-centimetre microchip, which uses myosin, molecular motors that perform mechanical tasks in living cells, to move protein filaments along artificial paths.
In a traditional computer, electrons are pushed through a chip by an electrical charge. But in the biocomputer, short strings of proteins are powered by Adenosine triphosphate, the chemical that provides energy to the cells in our bodies. As biocomputers operate in parallel and work in parallel, it leads to much faster problem solving, unlike a traditional computer.
“A biocomputer requires less than one per cent of the energy an electronic transistor needs to carry out one calculation step,” study co-ordinator Heiner Linke, director of nanoscience at Lund University in Sweden, said in a press release.
The ATP-powered biocomputer is only designed to solve a specific type of problem (it’s only solved {2, 5, 9}), but now that they have proven it works, the scientists involved say that we may see full-scale biological supercomputers and we may not be far from seeing the tech perform more complex tasks.
Powered by ATP, the technology is still in it's early stages of life.
It doesn't feel very alive or look too threatening from this perspective, does it?
How do you see it?
How do you feel about tax dollars funding this type of research and development?
Would these technologies be a threat to our jobs or allow us to work less, freeing up more time and make our need for an economic system obsolete?
What about becoming one?
Will these technologies replace us or become us or will we become the technology?
At what point of integration are we no longer human or is it no longer technology?
How close do you believe we are to singularity?
What moral issues are there?
What kind of life form is a biocomputer if it has a thinking brain?
Will you see them as a computer or as a living thing?
Will you think of different biocomputers in different ways, say, by their appearance?
Will we, in effect, become slave owners?
Do you think these are issues that you will be faced with in your lifetime or is it still a long way off by your estimation?
Additional resources:
World Economic Forum UTC
Wiki
Human Biocomputers
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Food For Thought- Feeding Your Brain Electric Signals For Intellectual Growth
Are These Really New Discoveries Or Are We Being Manipulated?
Will You Be Among 'The Saved?"
Cell Powers: Part 1- Your Wake Up Call
Cell Powers: Part 2- Manipulating Minds
New Brains and Made-To-Order Body Parts
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