Category Archive for “synthetic biology”
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The Big Fix – 9 Tech controversies to watch for in 2009

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Written for The Ecologist – February 2009 available online at http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=2053 Somebody somewhere has to have a cunning plan to fix our environmental problems and save the world – right? Jim Thomas sorts through the big tech ideas you’ll be reading about this year  Almost every day sees new technologies being proposed to fix old problems. [...]

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Tech Reckoning: Life In The Mix

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Written for The Ecologist 01/10/2008 Available online at http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1978 If there is a video gamer in your life, chances are that you have heard of Spore, the latest creation from the super successful inventor of ‘The Sims’. Spore lets players digitally design and evolve new organisms ranging from single-celled microbes to intergalactic aliens. In the [...]

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