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"I don't want to talk about it, I want to do it"

This guy should heed his own words.

Bio-engineering is a very real field but this is just dreamy talk.

If he doesn't like "emergent properties" then he really should stay far, far away from organisms, because that's what he's going to get. He's assuming a linear dynamics, that gene A gives rise to protein A and that's all there is to it. The problem is, we have just about exhausted the miniscule number of genes that actually work that way. The vast, vast majority work in highly complex, nonlinear ways. If he doesn't want to deal with that fact, he should stick with Newtonian physics.

Just like introducing rabbits to Australia made things interesting.

Trawling for mainstream credibility by dissing Drexler is so five years ago.

And if he thinks scientists are out of the biotech game, he must walk around campus blindfolded. MIT offers PhDs in both bioengineering and computational & systems biology. (Drexler did his PhD at the Media Lab.)

It's funny you posted this today. Drexler gave a talk on campus this week. He was invited by engineering.

Engineers have a lot to contribute in the biotech arena, but the best among them are learning how to deal with non-linear and complex system. The old-school engineers will fail in biotech research. One of my profs. is a young hot shot in biotech. He's an engineer but he's careful to emphasize the need to understand these complex properties.