If we don't like what happens, we can just go back to 1927 and live GURPS
Life.
> I'm almost 400 messages behind in my reading here. I did a quick scan of
> headers and it looks like no one had posted this yet. My apologies if it
> has already been mentioned somewhere inside a post:
>
> http://boingboing.net/2012/06/27/genetically-evolved-semiconduc.html
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> "Researchers have "evolved" new semiconducting structures in a process
> that could someday lead to higher-performing computer chips. The UC Santa
> Barbara bio/nano-engineers amplified the DNA of silicateins, the proteins
> that guide the formation of marine sponges' silica skeletons. The natural
> mutations produced by that process resulted in silicateins genetically
> encoded to produce different templates for silica skeletons."
>
> So I guess we know what is coming next, right? ;) And here I thought
> all along it was going to be the zombies that destroyed our
> civilization...
>
> Davis
>
> (Still mustering thoughts for my review of "Survival Margin".)
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