can we create new life out of our digital universe?
craig venter [ 1 ][ 2 ] answers: yes, and pretty soon. he spoke at ted 2008 about his latest research into fourth-generation fuels: biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock.
his talk covers the details of creating brand-new chromosomes using digital technology, the reasons why we would want to do this, and the bioethics of synthetic life.