What if your body is just software waiting to be updated?

⁠Andrew Hessel⁠ has spent decades at the frontier of synthetic biology — a field that treats DNA like code, cells like processors, and diseases like bugs to be patched. In this conversation, we go deep.

We talk about programming life from scratch, designing personalized cancer drugs for one single patient, and his company Chromosome 24 — a plan to back up human beings the way we back up our phones.

Biology, DNA, viruses as USB sticks, AI-designed proteins, headless bodyoids, human cloning... and yes, we talk about death too.

This one will mess with your head. In the best way.

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What if every transparent surface around you—car windshields, building windows, even glass walls—could augment your reality without wearing any device?

Jussi Mäkinen from Distance Technologies reveals how computational optics is turning ordinary surfaces into mixed reality portals.

We explore the technology reshaping human perception and ask: who decides what we see in this augmented future?

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What if we could shrink the intelligence of ants and bees into robots smaller than a coin?

Elio Challita, a Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard's Microrobotics Laboratory, is making this sci-fi dream reality. From studying termites that spit like 3D printers to cicadas that spray with chainsaw-level power, Elio explains how swarms of biodegradable micro robots could detect environmental disasters in minutes instead of weeks.

We dive into surface tension physics, biological materials as robot parts, and why insects might be the world's greatest engineers.

Could armies of tiny guardians be monitoring every forest, ocean, and city by 2075?

This conversation will change how you see the bugs in your backyard forever.

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