Sunday, May 01, 2016

Big Picture Science for Monday May 02, 2016 - Living Computers













Big Picture Science - Living Computers

ENCORE: It’s the most dramatic technical development of recent times: Teams of people working for decades to produce a slow-motion revolution we call computing. As these devices become increasingly powerful, we recall that a pioneer from the nineteenth century – Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and Lord Byron’s daughter – said they would never surpass human ability. Was she right?

We consider the near-term future of computing as the Internet of Things is poised to link everything together, and biologists adopt the techniques of information science to program living cells.

Plus: What’s your favorite sci-fi computer?

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This encore podcast was first released on December 07, 2014

Download podcast at: http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/Living_Computers

You can listen to this and other episodes at http://bigpicturescience.org/, and be sure to check out Blog Picture Science, the companion blog to the radio show.

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