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Published: 2013-01-24
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjV7NNwm1GU
good afternoon I'm a research scientist at the Massachusetts institute of technology's center for bits and atoms another the name of the sender is very provocative and that indeed we do a lot of things with a lot of bits including by obits and today I wanna talk to you about bio nanotechnology and this is an emerging science where we learn from how biology does things and then
we steel copy emulate mimic the ways of biology first vendor standing and then by %HESITATION corrupting and we make engineering out of it what drives us mostly it's curiosity we recognize that to understand something just like Richard Feynman said you have to first bill that if you don't know how to build something you don't understand it we don't know how to build a photosynthetic solar cell
we don't really understand for this in this very well we don't know how to build a by electronic nose to mimic a dog's nose let's say we don't really understand olfaction the sense of smell so that's what drives its basically curiosity but most the time when you start the basic curiosity driven and never you always almost always end up with applications that are very very interesting
