Biological machines/computers

[evilwill88]

Is there any possibility of machines with biological components or using organic tissue with computers?

Or is it all just science fiction?

[dutchie]

I see no reason why we would want to have that... Can you?

[lazserus]

It's not science fiction. We actually have running biological computers.

<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_DNAcomputer.html" target="top">news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_DNAcomputer.html</a>

There's a link to an article about them.

[armageddononline]

Wow, I hadn't heard of that. It doesn't give much detail on how the system can be programmed, I assume it'd be very difficult to make any sophisticated software.

[DontBeAfraid]

For andriods dutchie. Andriods. Dont htink of terminator, think of data.

[dutchie]

WOW!! BLOODY INTERESTING!! Is this not a hoax??

[evilwill88]

It sounds plausible to me........ I suppose this is linked with nano technology.

[dutchie]

Why would we need androids, DBA? Why would we package a computer in the shape of a human being? For soldiers? Who needs soldiers when you can send rockets??

[lazserus]

<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Is this not a hoax?[/quote]

No hoax, dude. I was reading about this 2 years ago. It's quite fascinating.

Mike, I believe there are some articles out there you can read that will describe the programming aspect with greater detail. Just do a google search on "DNA computing".

[armageddononline]

www.howstuffworks.com/dna-computer.htm (http://www.howstuffworks.com/dna-computer.htm)

Nice link explaining (in very short words) how these things will work.

[johnb1]

DATA GATHERING, ANALYZING CODING,DEBUGGING,DUMPING,REJECTING aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh FATAL ERROR back to GATHERING..

COOL LINK.