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06 March 2008
On the verge of creating synthetic life: Craig Venter on TED.com
“Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into “fourth-generation fuels” — biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock. His talk covers the details of creating brand-new chromosomes using digital technology, the reasons why we would want to do this, and the bioethics of synthetic life. A fascinating Q&A with TED’s Chris Anderson follows (two words: suicide genes). (Recorded March 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 32:52.)
Watch Craig Venter’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances.
Read more about Craig Venter on TED.com.
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Emily McManus
Mar 7 2008@Rich — thanks! Link is fixed.
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suzi finer
Mar 7 2008Fascinating stuff here…adding the link now.
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Jim Stolze
Mar 9 2008Thanks for putting this up so quick after the conference!
I blogged about this talk in dutch:
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Naveen Sethia
Mar 9 2008Thanks for putting up this wonderful talk.
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Rich J
You link to the wrong video! That’s a link to Alan Kay.
The real link is here:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/227