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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
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() – Introduction
() – What Turing got wrong
() – MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
() – Digital logic
() – Self-assembling robots
() – Digital fabrication
() – Self-reproducing machine
() – Trash and fabrication
() – Lab-made bioweapons
() – Genome
() – Quantum computing
() – Microfluidic bubble computation
() – Maxwell’s demon
() – Consciousness
() – Cellular automata
() – Universe is a computer
() – Advice for young people
() – Meaning of life
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