Over the past years, a substantial portion of the research on socially disruptive technologies has concentrated on the phenomenon of conceptual disruption.
The aim of this presentation is to explain why 1) advances in science and 2) developments in technologies require us to rethink ethical ideals of radical connection.
Could scientists create artificial life from scratch? The bottom-up synthetic cell (SC) research aims at assembling simplified yet functional autonomous cells from “inanimate” molecular components.