Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner.

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence 3d printing

blockchain virtual reality and more hi this is richard jacobs with future tech podcast today i'm talking

with tiffany vora another faculty member from singularity university it seems like we're doing a series

talking to a lot of the faculty members from Singularity,

but the great thing is all of them have so much knowledge and so many things to talk about

that we only can talk about one thing at a time, but they all bring great value.

So undoubtedly this will be a good interview.

Tiffany, how you doing?

I'm great. Thanks for the invitation to

join you today. Yeah. So we're going to be talking about some of your foretays, I guess,

digital biology. That's right. Yeah, can you explain to listeners what that means?

Digital biology is a way of looking at living systems as information.

So when we think about DNA, we can think about DNA as the source code for life.

For digital biology, we think of a DNA sequence as literally code that we can edit just the way that you would edit computer code.

And when you think of life

as information, then that means you can program life to do lots of interesting things. That's the

digital biology framework. So what are some of the main efforts that you're working on in the

digital biology realm? Well, at Singularity University, one of the things I'm trying to do is bring this framework

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