#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
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<p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br />
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(00:00) – Introduction<br />
(05:37) – What Turing got wrong<br />
(11:02) – MIT Center for Bits and Atoms<br />
(24:08) – Digital logic<br />
(30:44) – Self-assembling robots<br />
(41:12) – Digital fabrication<br />
(52:07) – Self-reproducing machine<br />
(59:53) – Trash and fabrication<br />
(1:04:49) – Lab-made bioweapons<br />
(1:09:04) – Genome<br />
(1:20:56) – Quantum computing<br />
(1:25:28) – Microfluidic bubble computation<br />
(1:30:49) – Maxwell’s demon<br />
(1:39:35) – Consciousness<br />
(1:46:35) – Cellular automata<br />
(1:51:07) – Universe is a computer<br />
(1:55:53) – Advice for young people<br />
(2:05:10) – Meaning of life</p>