The living software revolution

Using biological computation has the potential to transform medicine, agriculture and energy on a global scale. Microsoft Senior Scientist Sara-Jane Dunn shares her thoughts on how programming biology could help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges including climate change, the spread of disease and world hunger—creating scalable solutions to transform the world as we know it.

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[simpletechdaily]

Is this going to be a long-running Microsoft series? I wish they were creating a playlist! Request please!

[ivanivanov]

В кубах нужно было как-то встроить окна

[tagtag]

I can't wait to spend hours debugging my headache

[Kags]

oh my... "What coding languages do you know?"
"Oh I know C#"
"Oh ya I know C++"
"I code in DNA"

[utoooopqpq]

So company's will start programming viruses so we will need to buy for updating our cells .

[Ouli]

I freaking love this new image Microsoft is trying to deliver. It's amazing. Keep going Microsoft, with everything!
(Linux compatibility, new visions, working to a better world)

[hazratjasni]

Impressed on how Microsoft and SpaceX see the world

[Strictdhe]

1985 : Coding on a silicon

2019 : Coding on Biology

2069 : Coding Physics

2254 : Coding our planet

2650 : Coding our sun

2889 : Coding the whole space

3001 : Coding life

3049 : Coding Afterlife

4200 : Coding beforlife

6666 : Coding humans

6969 : Coding God

7076 : Coding Ores

7777 : Coding weather

[tomeryud]

the music was so good it distracted me from her lol

[kavunr]

Builds language compiler for biological computation. Forgets to build a roof on the house.

[undersky]

This will be interesting when we accidentally program "unintended behaviour" in a biological context

[robynhighart]

God damn it, it's only 4 pm but I need to go to sleep! Microsoft update needs to install new liver drivers. I hope my dream ads will be skippable this time!

[godfreddigod]

We're fast approaching the stage of inversion in human history, the stage where we're realizing that technology can be used to decode and recode the fundamentals of human life.

This is the best time to be alive.

[revvilo]

Apparently, she also works at the intersection between American, Scottish, and Australian English xD
Nah seriously tho, insanely fascinating video. Awesome stuff.

[TheOnlyEpsilonAlpha]

I agree with the possibilities but let‘s also face the dangers going along with that kind of programming:
- You can reprogram humans, the complete new and more effective form of manipulation and mind control could be invented
- A new generation of weapon would be born where it could „depopulate“ a region without ever firing a shot, you can hack cells that humans could simply fall to dust in an instant. War would become a key press in that scenario and can be instant applied.
- And let‘s not forget: Humans make failures, fatal ones as well. How horrible the 2 points above are, they are not that kind of horrible if humans don‘t do it right and implement just one of them wrong and eradicate the majority of human population or wiping the minds of the people who could solve problems we don‘t even know yet.
- And also let‘s not forget: If one of those come into the wrong hands of terror organizations which would do it on purpose!

Some powers should simply not be wield by the humans in the Current times. With the current mindsets in politics, society, constant wars against each other for resources, a piece of dirt or the ideology of women and men which are all dead long time ago, even besides the wars we torture and kill each other. We can’t trust ourselves with the powers we already have, so why do we think it’s an good idea to upgrade that?

[naomiharding]

Love this. One huge factor behind the cellular programmes/computation must be thoughts though, right?! Don't cells behave according to the mind? At least somewhat?!

[Anonymous-ycui]

The topic is very interesting, but it’s hard to listen to such a stream of information without visualization. If you add a video explaining the topic, then it will be simply amazing.

[fkzwjsp]

Anybody take note of the part where she said they could grow new brain cells?
doctor: "The good news is that your husband's Alzheimer's is cured. The bad news is that he has contracted the characteristics of an alcoholic Victorian chimney sweeper who only speaks Swedish."
debugging the irl API

[leeyewleung]

Enter developer mode...
Run as administrator...
Debug code line : life time
Remove/edit : death

[AkashKumar-znvz]

Code runs in human... please update your firewall 👨🏻‍💻