Neil Gershenfeld

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So how the small amount of it, relatively in effect, small amount of information in the genome can give rise to the complexity of who you are.

And that's where what resides is this molecular intelligence

which is first how to describe you, but then how to describe you such that you can exist and you can reproduce and you can grow and you can evolve.

And so that's the seat of our molecular intelligence.

Yeah, it really is.

It really is.

And that's where you can't separate communication, computation, and fabrication.

You can't separate computer science and physical science.

You can't separate hardware and software.

They all intersect right at that place.

I would even kind of say quantum computing is overhyped in that there's a few things quantum computing is going to be good at.

One is breaking crypto systems, but we know how to make new crypto systems.

What it's really good at is modeling other quantum systems.

So for studying nanotechnology, it's going to be powerful.

But quantum computing is not going to disrupt and change everything.

But the reason I say that is this interesting group of strange people who helped invent quantum computing before it was clear anything was there.

One of the main reasons they did it wasn't to make a computer that can break a crypto system.

It was, you could turn this backwards.

You could be surprised quantum mechanics can compute, or you can go in the opposite direction and say, if quantum mechanics can compute,

That's a description of nature.

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