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Off Beat: Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years

An AP newswire article by Seth Borenstein, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.

Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."

"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."

posted by Fergie @ 8/19/2007 12:49:00 PM