Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:28 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_ ... ial_life_3
In other words they have no idea what it's good for
"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways — in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."
"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.
In other words they have no idea what it's good for
