{"id":247387,"date":"2026-11-14T23:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/the-worlds-first-living-computers-are-here"},"modified":"2026-11-14T23:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:11:36","slug":"the-worlds-first-living-computers-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/the-worlds-first-living-computers-are-here","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s First Living Computers Are Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"The World\u2019s First Living Computers Are Here\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzCRQukGU9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2026, a server rack in Singapore was switched on with living human brain cells inside it. Every three days, someone has to feed it. The cells grew from a stem cell. They sit on a chip covered in electrodes. They can learn, and they have already learned to play Doom. You can rent one for about $2,200 a month, or buy one for $35,000. For the first time in history, human brain tissue is being sold, racked, and programmed in Python.<br \/> Every claim in this video comes from published research and public reporting: the National University of Singapore, Cortical Labs, Johns Hopkins University, the journal Neuron, Nature, Frontiers in Science, Amazon Web Services, The Straits Times, WIRED, Scientific American and The Register. This is not a forecast. These computers already exist, and they are already for sale.<\/p>\n<p>TIMESTAMPS:<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2014 Intro.<br \/> 00:32 \u2014 The Computer That Eats.<br \/> 02:48 \u2014 How To Grow A Compter.<br \/> 05:14 \u2014 Pong and Doom.<br \/> 07:29 \u2014 The Neuron That Became Software.<br \/> 09:56 \u2014 One Million.<br \/> 11:55 \u2014 Whose Cells Are These.<br \/> 13:55 \u2014 Final Thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Discover 50,000+ AI tools at: <a href=\"https:\/\/theresanaiforthat.com\">https:\/\/theresanaiforthat.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RESOURCES &amp; FURTHER READING:<\/p>\n<p>THE SINGAPORE RACK:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/the-worlds-first-living-computers-are-here\">Continue reading \u201cThe World\u2019s First Living Computers Are Here\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, a server rack in Singapore was switched on with living human brain cells inside it. Every three days, someone has to feed it. The cells grew from a stem cell. They sit on a chip covered in electrodes. They can learn, and they have already learned to play Doom. You can rent one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247387","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}