{"id":24311,"date":"2016-04-05T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T05:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/introduction-explaining-the-future-of-synthetic-biology-with-computer-programmings-past"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:03:34","slug":"introduction-explaining-the-future-of-synthetic-biology-with-computer-programmings-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/introduction-explaining-the-future-of-synthetic-biology-with-computer-programmings-past","title":{"rendered":"Introduction: Explaining the Future of Synthetic Biology with Computer Programming\u2019s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/introduction-explaining-the-future-of-synthetic-biology-with-computer-programmings-past.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like this article highlights; we will see a day soon when all techies will need some level of bio-science and\/ or medical background especially as we move closer to Singularity which is what we have seen predicted by Ray Kurzweil and others. In the coming decade\/s we will no longer see tech credentials relying strictly on math\/ algorithms, code, etc, Techies will need some deeper knowledge around the natural sciences.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you are majoring in biology right now, I say to you: that was a good call. The mounting evidence suggests that you placed your bet on the right degree. With emergent genetic recombination technologies improving at breakneck speed alongside a much deepened understanding of biological circuitry in simple, \u201chome grown\u201d metabolic systems, this field is shaping up to be a tinkerer\u2019s paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Many compare this stage of synthetic biology to the early days of microprocessing (the precursor to computers) when Silicon Valley was a place for young entrepreneurs to go if they needed a cheap place to begin their research or tech business. One such tech entrepreneur, the founder of O\u2019Reilly media, Tim O\u2019Reilly \u2014 who also coined the term \u201copen source\u201d \u2014 made this comparison in an interview with Wired magazine., O\u2019Reilly further commented on synthetic biology saying, \u201cIt\u2019s still in the fun stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/flathatnews.com\/2016\/04\/05\/introduction-explaining-the-future-of-synthetic-biology-with-computer-programmings-past\/\">http:\/\/flathatnews.com\/2016\/04\/05\/introduction-explaining-th...ings-past\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like this article highlights; we will see a day soon when all techies will need some level of bio-science and\/ or medical background especially as we move closer to Singularity which is what we have seen predicted by Ray Kurzweil and others. In the coming decade\/s we will no longer see tech credentials relying strictly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,43,1523,412,41,2229,2018,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-computing","category-genetics","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-ray-kurzweil","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67802,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311\/revisions\/67802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}