#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

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