Scientists successfully created a biological computer out of E. coli

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Originally published at: Scientists successfully created a biological computer out of E. coli | Boing Boing

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The answer is 42.

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So, the Internet of Shit is well and truly here…

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Don’t we have enough trouble with microorganisms without teaching them to compute?

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The answer is Skynet?

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We’ve been pooping computer parts?

We all are going to be rich!

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okay, okay, i think i get it - so what yer sayin’ is: if i eat raw hamburger it’ll make me smarter - right? alright then

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5tk8v4

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In this supply chain, that’s a tempting solution…

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I’d better get started on mining $HITCOIN

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Nah, bah. No USB-C.

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Reminds me of Greg Bear’s book Blood Music. Good stuff!

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Nobody likes using their stinkin computer. The software is crap.
Before you can download you need to open a window. The filing system for hard copy is convoluted. Make sure your camera is off when you are taking a screendump.

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It’s not like John Scalzi didn’t try to warn us: When the Yogurt Took Over: A Short Story | Whatever

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E. coli or e-coli?

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Courtesy of Merriam Webster:

Medical Definition of coli

: of or relating to bacteria normally inhabiting the intestine or colon and especially to species of the genus Escherichia (as E. coli )

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Yes, “e-coli”: Bacteria. Computer. Hey, is this thing on?

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Now we can know, dust under computer keyboards is particularly disgusting not because it’s from other peoples’ cats and alopecia, but because it cannily encodes in little mazes each endeavor we have stubbed and neglected, each unexplored art we’d meant to get to before the wrong tab presented, each habit of abdication the computer had taught.

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