Designing the Future
🧬 Designing the Future: Superhuman Biology and the Limits of Perception What if we could code life the way we code software? What if we could build new organisms—cell by cell, gene by gene—by simply writing out a string of nucleotides and feeding it into a machine? Lately, I've been thinking deeply about the idea of coding life from scratch. I don’t mean inserting one gene into a plasmid and calling it a GMO. I mean literally writing out a whole genome —ATGC by ATGC—assembling regulatory regions, coding sequences, non-coding DNA, and everything else a cell would need to become alive and self-sustaining. And then giving that blueprint to a system—an automated platform that synthesizes the DNA, inserts it into an empty cell, incubates it, and grows life from instructions . That’s not science fiction. It’s where synthetic biology is heading. And it's only the beginning. The Dream: A Mission-Control for Life Imagine this: You enter a digital platform—so...