BioHacking and BioHackery
Some research tangentially related to a project I'm currently working on for a client led me today to a blog on BioHacking...
You may say there is Genetic engineering and Biotechnology. Yes, they are there but they are just the beginning. I am talking about grander things such as bacteria playing chess, farms of algae providing energy for inter-planetary journey, microbial intelligence replacing AI, E. coli on seek-and-destroy cancer missions in our body, merger of biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology, and many other futuristic bio-things.
All these things are grand yet achievable. And the art/science (it doesn't make a difference yet) of achieving them is BioHacking.
In a similar vein, there's also Biohackery, a blog about "do-it-yourself biology".
If you thought the fight between free and closed software was bruising, wait till the gloves come off between free and closed wetware...
I could spend hours reading this stuff!