http://www.austinstartup.com/2007/12/researchers-overly-pessimistic-on-new-technology/ Austin Technology News, Events, Opinions Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:46:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.austinstartup.com/2007/12/researchers-overly-pessimistic-on-new-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-29856 Apocryphal or not… « Lunchtime! Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:58:19 +0000 http://72.167.125.157/2007/12/04/researchers-overly-pessimistic-on-new-technology/#comment-29856 [...] Efforts to create virtual tissues are certainly ambitious. The idea is to create a sufficiently accurate simulation of biology that the effects of perturbations (such as a toxic substance) are emergent</a<, rather than hard-coded. There are numerous challenges ahead and it may or may not even be possible, but as I mentioned tot he Ale House attendee’s someone presented an extremely pithy pair of quotes. They may or may not be apocryphal (a word whose own meaning is apparently somewhat dubious), since I cannot find either quote outside of this pairing, but it’s certainly an entertaining idea relevant to ;any technology on the cusp of feasibility: [...] [...] Efforts to create virtual tissues are certainly ambitious. The idea is to create a sufficiently accurate simulation of biology that the effects of perturbations (such as a toxic substance) are emergent</a<, rather than hard-coded. There are numerous challenges ahead and it may or may not even be possible, but as I mentioned tot he Ale House attendee’s someone presented an extremely pithy pair of quotes. They may or may not be apocryphal (a word whose own meaning is apparently somewhat dubious), since I cannot find either quote outside of this pairing, but it’s certainly an entertaining idea relevant to ;any technology on the cusp of feasibility: [...]

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