By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.
Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.
Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.