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    18 hours ago

    We’ll have reduced the human body to basically just another machine and will be in the process of reverse-engineering it. So many new techniques and sources of data have come online all at the same time in biology.

    This is in contrast to the current situation where we know a few things about select parts of the body in isolation.

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      5 hours ago

      To piggyback in this, there will be organic technology created: computers using synapses, muscles powering things, etc.

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        It’s bound to happen in one way or another. I’d put that more than a decade out, though. Providing a nutritionally appropriate blood supply is a deal-killer for existing muscle tissues, and you can’t really design artificial bloodless muscles until the reverse engineering is done.

        We might have de-novo cultivated crops ready to commercialise by 2035 (that’s wild plants genetically engineered to be commercially useful).