Saturday, July 30, 2016

Comment on living buildings and possible future synthetic biology tech

Yes lots of problems with the current approach. But someday in the future we might see true living buildings, where there are isolated locations that recycle wastes, and also separate energy collection and storage, self repairing and self modifying living walls.

Ideally you'd use synthetic biology to create a new type of multicellular organism, one that could take energy from the sun, from nuclear materials, from electricity, from the wind, and store it. Might be plant like, but with living 8k display covering all walls, perhaps even holographic. Could biosynthesize carbon nanotubes to strengthen the structure, and since it would exhibit negligible senescence the building could last for thousands or even millions of years. If it had advanced living computing, recycling and manufacturing facilities, technology and knowledge at the state of the art would be preserved even if most of the world was destroyed in some disaster.

With extremophile genes and the ability to build the right insulating and protective compounds, it could survive extreme temperature and even atmospheric variations, while keeping the internal areas human hospitable.

Able to repair, build up more of itself, and recycle, a small seedlike form of this could be sent to a planet like mars, and it would automatically and at virtually zero cost build by itself vast subterranean facilities all across mars, facilities that were human hospitable.- source next big future

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