Energy—expensive and dirty as it often is—is at present a limiter technolgogy’s rate of process. Not for too much longer.

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As with AI. Robotics proved much more difficult in practice than early engineers assumed. The real world is strange, uneven, unexpected, and unstructured environment, exquisitely sensitive to things like pressure: picking up an egg, an apple, a brick, a child, and a bowl of soup all require extraordinary dexterity, sensitivity, strength, and balance. An environment like a kitchen or workshop is messy, filled with dangerous items, oil slick, and multiple different tools and materials. It’s a robot’s nightmare

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The capability has given rise to the new field of synthetic biology—the ability to read, edit, and now write the code of life.

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Genetic engineering sounds modern, but it’s actually one of humankind’s oldest technologies [e. g. selective breeding].

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The coming wave of technology is built primarily on two general-purpose technologies capable of operating at the grandest and most granular levels alike: artificial intelligence and synthetic biology.

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For most of the history, the challenge if technology lay in creating and unleashing its power. That has now flipped: the challenge of technology today is about containing its unleashed power, ensuring, it continues to serve us and our planet.

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A more tectonic process, where it’s a question of not if these powers are harnessed but them, in what form, and by whom.

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Technologies are ideas, and ideas cannot be eliminated.

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Inventions cannot be uninvented or blocked indefinitely, knowledge unlearned or stopped from spreading.

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Technology is not an adversary; it’s basics property of human society.

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Just because consequences are difficult to predict doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try

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Containment is the overarching ability to control, limit, and, if need be, close down technologies at any stage of their development or deployment. It means, in some circumstances, the ability to stop a technology from proliferating in the first place, checking the ripple, and so the need for the containment grows more acute over time.

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