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Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years
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by Anach » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:28 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_ ... ial_life_3
"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
Use of undefined constants causes assumptions!
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by gelfling » Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:35 am
He hasn't said very much there has he
"Let your love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity."
- Sutta Nipata
