{"id":97282,"date":"2019-10-10T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T17:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/biology-really-may-be-our-future"},"modified":"2019-10-10T21:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T04:09:50","slug":"biology-really-may-be-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/biology-really-may-be-our-future","title":{"rendered":"Biology Really May Be Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biology-really-may-be-our-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of us are fascinated by our various computing devices \u2014 our smartphones, our smart watches, and an ever-growing array of smart devices. What we sometimes forget is that we are biological creatures (at least, until <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Singularity<\/a>), and that even though biology as a discipline has been around much longer than computing, biology may yet supersede it.<\/p>\n<p>If the 20th century was the era of computers, the 21st century may be the era of biology. And the two may even merge. Hello, synthetic biology and biological computing!<\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"https:\/\/synbiobeta.com\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SynBioBeta<\/a> hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/2019.synbiobeta.com\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Global Synthetic Biology Summit<\/a>, \u201cwhere tech meets bio and bio meets tech.\u201d People were urged to attend \u201cto see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us are fascinated by our various computing devices \u2014 our smartphones, our smart watches, and an ever-growing array of smart devices. What we sometimes forget is that we are biological creatures (at least, until The Singularity), and that even though biology as a discipline has been around much longer than computing, biology may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97282","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97298,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97282\/revisions\/97298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}