What happens when biology becomes technology? | Christina Agapakis

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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"We've been promised a future of chrome -- but what if the future is fleshy?" asks biological designer Christina Agapakis. In this awe-inspiring talk, Agapakis details her work in synthetic biology -- a multidisciplinary area of research that pokes holes in the line between what's natural and artificial -- and shares how breaking down the boundaries between science, society, nature and technology can lead us to imagine different possible futures.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh. There are scientists
0:15.8	dedicated to programming living cells and writing DNA in the same way we can write programs
0:21.2	for computers. Christina Agapacis is one of them. In her TED 2020
0:26.1	talk, the biological designer explores how the intersection of biology and technology leads
0:31.5	us to the big questions about who we are and who we're becoming.
0:35.8	How the possibilities of engineering living things can make us, our bodies that is,
0:40.6	and the future of humanity more expansive.
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1:06.2	A briefcase full of poop changed my life.
1:09.6	Ten years ago, I was a graduate student
1:11.4	and I was helping judge a genetic engineering
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