Just watched this conversation between synthetic biologists Daisy Ginsberg, Christina Agapakis, and Patrick Boyle and Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson and was struck by something Ginsberg said near the end:
"Diversity is the rule in biology... There's a hundred different glasses in the catalogue, but they certainly don't interact with each other, and they're not going to change."
This little sentence catalysed the image of some kind of catalogue of biologically engineered products whose cellular relationships were so intertwined and codependent that a change in one product would effect changes in all of the other products, like a ripple effect through a biologically networked ecosystem. Is this crazy? Any explorations would have to start out on the metaphorical level, but it might help to start experimenting with the interconnectivity of ecosystems and consequent ripple effect of changing biological variables.
"Diversity is the rule in biology... There's a hundred different glasses in the catalogue, but they certainly don't interact with each other, and they're not going to change."
This little sentence catalysed the image of some kind of catalogue of biologically engineered products whose cellular relationships were so intertwined and codependent that a change in one product would effect changes in all of the other products, like a ripple effect through a biologically networked ecosystem. Is this crazy? Any explorations would have to start out on the metaphorical level, but it might help to start experimenting with the interconnectivity of ecosystems and consequent ripple effect of changing biological variables.
