I'm sure you'll have a bunch of great questions coming from the group, John.
Here's something I'm curious about: what are the most useful 'industrial'
applications that could significantly impact our world within the next decade?
On a related note, I watched the animated movie 'Big Hero 6' recently, and it
struck me that the way nanobots are applied in construction could well be a way
forward for synthetic biology, albeit in a more limited way. Maybe an
alternative to 3-D printing, but without the instant gratification?
CheersDivya
On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:05 AM, John Sundman <[email protected]>
wrote:
[Apologies to those of you who’ve just seen a virtually identical email on one
or more other lists. We’ve got to stop meeting like this. . . .]
I’ll be spending an hour with George Church on Friday. Church is a molecular
biologist/geneticist of nearly Einsteinian range and significance. For one
metric, in his Harvard/MIT lab there are 160 scientists working under his
supervision.
Here’s his wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Church
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Church>
and here’s a profile from a recent National Geographic:
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/innovators/2014/06/140602-george-church-innovation-biology-science-genetics-de-extinction/
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/innovators/2014/06/140602-george-church-innovation-biology-science-genetics-de-extinction/>>
Here’s about his recent book Regenesis, about the imminent revolution in
biology that is going to rock our world, big time:
http://www.amazon.com/Regenesis-Synthetic-Biology-Reinvent-Ourselves/dp/0465075703
<http://www.amazon.com/Regenesis-Synthetic-Biology-Reinvent-Ourselves/dp/0465075703>
If I can figure out how the logistics, I’ll record the conversation & post it
as a podcast. But in any event I’ll be blogging it.
I know George (remind me to tell you how I met him. It has a connection to my
novella Cheap Complex Devices); we’re not intimate friends but certainly we’re
friendly. As it turns out he’s a fan of my books, which is how I managed to
score an hour on his extremely crowded calendar. I asked if I could talk to him
about some ideas I’ve been kicking around for my many-years-behind-schedule
novel Creation Science. Which is to say that I expect to have a friendly chat
with him, not a Chris-Farley-interviews-Paul-McCartney thing.
But the guy really is a genius, and a deep thinker about DNA & human destiny. I
want to make the most of my time with him this week.
SO MY DEAR SILKY FRIENDS,
What should I ask?
Regards,
jrs
