Posts Tagged ‘future’

Synthetic Biology: The convergence of modern software and DNA

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

I’ve been ranting about this in drunken pub conversations for a few years now. But finally someone with an ounce of academic credibility to back me up.

My 2030 prediction for my company is:

  • Instead of creating iPhone Apps will be creating bespoke organisms for clients:
  • IA’s will be architecting their functionality
  • GD’s will be designing how they look
  • Tech arch’s will be designing how they are built
  • Developers will be using a synthetic Biology language to write/model/build/print them
  • Testers will be testing them to make sure they meet the requirements
  • Project managers will manage these new bio-tech projects
  • And Account directors will continue to mainly play golf ;-)

A further interesting discussion of this was posted up by a fellow member of the London Futurists group.

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Omni-directional treadmill’s are soooo cool!

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Wow, look what I just saw on engadget:

that’s soooo cool. 

a) for the gaming industry, obviously.

b) for doing that cool thing in sci-fi movies where you can experience being in another place, and meetings! Like the next stage of video conferencing! Although we need to figure out how to do decent holograms without resorting to peppers ghost tricks, as a low tech solution we could just put a peppers ghost on wheels though to fix it.

Also, think of the possibilities - using this relatively low cost device, you could allow people to visit the Taj Mahal or the empire state building. I saw one of those Paul Merton programs in India where he goes on a old jumbo jet with a load of people who want to experience flying - this will revolutionise that! It’ll be great for education!

All they need to do is figure out how to do the whole stairs thing, but that’s not a big deal.

Crikey, the future is going to be SOOO AWESOME! I have to get one of these for my office!

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