Chapter 147 24.2 Hijacking the Universe

The laws of creation underpin the awe-inspiring workings of nature: savannahs, flamingos, cedar forests, eyeballs, natural selection in geological time, and even evolution from baby sperm, eggs, to baby elephants... The same is true of the nine laws of creation of biological logic, which are now infused into computer chips, electronic communication networks, robotic modules, pharmaceutical exploration, software design, and corporate management, aiming to make these artificial systems overcome their own complexity. When technology is bioactivated, we have artifacts that adapt, learn, and evolve.When our technology adapts, learns and evolves, we have a new biological civilization.

All complexities come together to form an indestructible continuum between the rigidly precise gears and the wilderness of gorgeous nature.Improvements in mechanical design have become a hallmark of the industrial age.The imprint of the new biological civilization is to return its designed works to organic again.Unlike early human societies, which relied on biological solutions derived from nature—herbal remedies, animal proteins, natural dyes, etc.—neobiological cultures blend engineering and indulgent nature until the two are indistinguishable, that is, As incredible as it should be. The coming culture has a distinct biological nature, which is influenced by the following five aspects:

Despite the increasing technologicalization of our world, organic life—both wild and domesticated—will continue to be a major infrastructure of human understanding of the global picture. Mechanics will become more biological. The technological network will make human culture more conducive to the balance and evolution of the ecological environment. Engineering biology and biotechnology will overwhelm the importance of mechanical technology. Biological approaches will be considered ideal for problem solving. In the coming new biological age, all the things we both depend on and worry about will be more natural than man-made.Today we have computer viruses, neural networks, Bio2, gene therapy, and smart cards—all artificially constructed products that link mechanical and biological processes.Future biomimetic hybrids will be more confusing, more pervasive, and more powerful.Maybe, I thought, a world of mutated buildings, living silicon polymers, software programs that evolve offline, adaptive vehicles, rooms stuffed with co-evolving furniture, mosquito-like robots that clean, Healing man-made biological viruses, neurological sockets, cyborg body parts, custom food crops, simulated personalities, and giant ecologies of ever-changing computing devices.

The river of life—at least the logic of its flow—flows throughout life. We should not be surprised at this, life has conquered most of the inert matter on earth, and it will next conquer technology and subject it to its ever-evolving, ever-changing and ever-changing dominion whose processes are beyond our control .Even if we don't relinquish control, the gains of new biotechnology are vastly greater than that of a world of clocks, cogs, and predictable simplicity. As complex as today is, tomorrow will be even more complex.Scientists and the projects relayed here have been concerned with mastering the laws of design in order to bring order out of chaos, thereby avoiding the disintegration of organized complexity into disorganized complexity, thereby creating something out of nothing.