This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang, but with an "upgrade".
Pete Vincent from the FW list -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pete Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:17 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] darpa's living foundries On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Michael Gurstein wrote: > > Special Notice (SN) DARPA-SN-11-44 > SUBJECT: Living Foundries Industry Day > DATE: June 28, 2011 > >(...) > > The Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) of the Defense Advanced Research > Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring an Industry Day for "Living > Foundries," a new DARPA program. The goal of the Living Foundries program is > to apply an engineering framework to biology to harness its use as a > technology and drive its advance as a manufacturing platform. This spring, listening to the endless stream of weather emergency reports from across the world, while grinding through the ninth month of unbroken overcast, with drizzle interrupted by downpours, I thought about amending Eliot: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a gurgle However, in light of this article, I might propose a new last line Not with a bang but with an "Ooops, who opened that?" -Pete _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
