Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Synthetic Biology
We marvel at the incredible breakthroughs in computing power and artificial intelligence that seem to be getting all the press lately. What has been ignored, are the advances being made in synthetic biology. Scientists at a company called Cortical Labs have recently grown a crude sort of biological brain in a vat. They taught it to play an arcade game that came out in the 70’s called Pong. Elon Musk’s company, NeuralLink, is developing technology that will directly interface our brains with computers. Both society and investors are facing a brave new world.
