O’Reilly Media held its annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual show covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial. Here’s some of what we heard at this year’s show:
Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explains why he’s excited about synthetic biology
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained that code is now being used for genes that can be printed into bacteria.
He predicts that a Moore’s law for biology is taking hold, accelerating biotech at five or six times the speed of internet or hardware innovation. In fact, he says, you can now do bio experiments in your kitchen that two decades ago would have won a Nobel prize. From his vantage, the future is in the convergence of hardware, software, and biology.
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