“The Ultimate Reboot”

Jaun Enriquez, Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC and founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School, explains how advanced engineering in genetics, biology and robotics will evolve us from Homo Sapien into Homo Evolutis.

Juan Enriquez Explains The Biology Revolution At TED 2009 – Singularity Hub

Juan Enriquez Explains The Biology Revolution At TED 2009 from Keith Kleiner on Vimeo.

• Off the shelf biological components are being created that allow people to build organisms as if they were building a car or a machine.
• Tissues and organs that will someday replace our old ones are being grown in the lab.
• Man-made mechanical ears and eyes are on a path to not only match the capabilities of their natural counterparts, but shortly thereafter to exceed them.

Amazingly, this is not science fiction.  Technological advances are happening so rapidly that most folks may not even believe what has already been done.

Relatively soon, some may decide that healthy eyes, limbs and other parts are inferior to engineered parts and have the “natural” parts removed and replaced with “upgrades.”

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