Written in 1985, it is as stimulating now as it was then. I thought that his widening the story into a book worked very well. It started with the novella of the same name, which won some awards. The Most Complex Synthetic Biology CircuitĪrticles related to Computer Great.YOUR LIKE A BUNCH OF MOONIES This is the book that put Bear on the Map. Tech news articles related to works by Greg Bear Tech news articles related to Blood Music
Take a look at the entry for intellectual cell from the same book there is an interesting quote (with a link) from a talk by Seymour Cray, the father of supercomputing, about biological computers.Ĭomment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Work has been done to create computer circuits with organic components see this news article on the the cells developed their own memory and the ability to process and The bacteria had then duplicated and released the plasmids, passing on theīiologic to other cells.
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The earliest biologic strings had been inserted into E. What was reproduction, after all, but a compterized biological process of enormous Mammallian cell had a DNA complement of several million base pairs, each acting as a piece of So, why not turn to nature for a better computing model? Why limit oneself to silicon and protein and biochips a hundreth of a millimeter wide, when inĪlmost every living cell there was already a functioning computer with a huge memory? A Another is power (and heat) faster processors use a lot more energy, and for that reason have a significant problem with waste heat (leave your laptop on your lap for more than 15 minutes and you'll see what I mean!).
One is size we are coming to the point where it is no longer possible to squeeze more transistors into a smaller area. There are a number of limits that are gradually being approached in fabricating computer chips with silicon and other elements.
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