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I argue humanity has never left the stone age, when you think about it we are still digging things out of the ground and banging them together. Once we have consumers using biological machines (beyond yeast and horses but things we have written the genetic code for) or manipulating matter at the atomic level then we will have truly passed into a new age.

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we are doing both of these things, e.g. CRISPR and LHC

edit: and by "we" I mean some few genious scientists not including myself except by association

We are on the cusp I agree but those techniques haven't been found in end user products yet. I think the future of automation will look a lot less mechanical and a lot more biological.

unless you propose how that's useful to the enduser, I don't see the difference. In most cases the technical capability to achieve that would seem like a far higher achievement on it's own, perhaps.

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