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From the Ted Talk by Christina Agapakis: What happens when biology becomes technology?

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Ten years ago, I was a synthetic bsoiilgot worried that genetic engineering was more art than science and that people were too messy and biology was too complicated. Now I use genetic egneirening as art to explore all the different ways that we are entangled together and imagine different possible futures. A fleshy future is one that does recognize all those ineoctrtoncnenis and the hamun realities of technology. But it also roegienzcs the incredible power of bloogiy, its resilience and sustainability, its abitliy to heal and grow and adapt. Values that are so necessary for the visions of the futures that we can have today. Technology will shape that future, but humans make technology. How we decide what that future will be is up to all of us.

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Ten years ago, I was a synthetic _________ worried that genetic engineering was more art than science and that people were too messy and biology was too complicated. Now I use genetic ___________ as art to explore all the different ways that we are entangled together and imagine different possible futures. A fleshy future is one that does recognize all those ________________ and the _____ realities of technology. But it also __________ the incredible power of _______, its resilience and sustainability, its _______ to heal and grow and adapt. Values that are so necessary for the visions of the futures that we can have today. Technology will shape that future, but humans make technology. How we decide what that future will be is up to all of us.

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  1. biologist
  2. biology
  3. interconnections
  4. recognizes
  5. engineering
  6. human
  7. ability

Original Text

Ten years ago, I was a synthetic biologist worried that genetic engineering was more art than science and that people were too messy and biology was too complicated. Now I use genetic engineering as art to explore all the different ways that we are entangled together and imagine different possible futures. A fleshy future is one that does recognize all those interconnections and the human realities of technology. But it also recognizes the incredible power of biology, its resilience and sustainability, its ability to heal and grow and adapt. Values that are so necessary for the visions of the futures that we can have today. Technology will shape that future, but humans make technology. How we decide what that future will be is up to all of us.

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