Sveta McShane
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Machines Won’t Replace Us—We’ll Become Their Mentors
From time to time, the Singularity Hub editorial team unearths a gem from the archives and wants to share it all over again. It's usually a piece that was popular back then and we...
This Playful Lab-in-a-Box Will Teach You How to Reprogram Life
We’re in the midst of a life sciences revolution. The natural world, including our own bodies, is becoming malleable in a completely unprecedented way.
Today, we have the ability to turn any human cell...
Pill Packing 100 Billion Designer Bacteria Could Be Tested Next Year
Bacteria are among the oldest life forms on Earth and exist nearly everywhere; in the soil, water, deep in the earth’s crust and in our own bodies. Actually, there are at least as many...
Why the World Is Better Than Ever—and Will Get Better Still
If you read or watch the news, you’ll likely think the world is falling to pieces. Trends like terrorism, climate change, and a growing population straining the planet’s finite resources can easily lead you...
How to Train Thousands of Surgeons at the Same Time in Virtual Reality
Recently, I wrote about how the future of surgery is going to be robotic, data-driven and artificially intelligent.
Although it’s approaching fast, that future is still in the works. In the meantime, there is a...
The Future of Surgery Is Robotic, Data-Driven, and Artificially Intelligent
As far back as 3,500 years ago ancient Egyptian doctors were performing invasive surgeries. Even though our tools and knowledge have improved drastically over time, until very recently surgery was still a manual task...
3 DNA Technologies That Will Forever Change Your Home Life
You’ve likely heard that the DNA revolution is here, but we’ve yet to see it manifest in our daily lives and homes.
Speaking at this year’s Exponential Medicine conference, Raymond McCauley talked about how our...
What Happens When You Create a Chatbot to Memorialize a Friend
Whenever we lose someone close to us, there's an inclination, a need even, to sort through our memories of that person. Memories not just in our minds, but our digital memories too—emails, texts, photos,...
Surprisingly, Plant Microbes May Be an Answer to Our Growing Food Needs
Organizations as diverse as the United Nations and Monsanto are in agreement that we need to double our food production globally by 2050 to feed the world’s population.
But our current agricultural process is one...
Engineering Will Soon Be ‘More Parenting Than Programming’
"What's a crazy idea you believe in that others don't agree with?"
Peter Diamandis posed this classic question (which originated with Peter Thiel) during an interview with Steve Jurvetson at Singularity University's first ever Global Summit.
A successful venture...
5 Incredible Ways Scientists Are Merging Our Brains With Machines
I've been reading Ramez Naam's fantastic book "Nexus," which is set in a near-future where a powerful nano-drug allows human minds to connect together. In the story, a group of enterprising neuroscientists and engineers...
Harvard Biologists Just Demonstrated the Most Extensive Reengineering of a Genome Yet
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have "radically rewritten" the genome of bacteria E. coli. The team has replaced 7 of its 64 codons (3-letter sequences which correspond usually to a single animo acid.) The lab, led by George...
