One of the really cool things about living systems is the way they *want* to work. Â There are thousands of strange little redundancies and stopgaps that kick in when something doesn’t work right, or when it works *way* too right. Â DNA, given the right set of conditions, WANTS to zip itself up, it’s almost like it’s happiest in a double-helix, like that is it’s true base state, the place it always tries to return to.
Which makes alternate uses for DNA so incredibly cool. Â Yes, these are the instruction sets of life, but they don’t have to be just that. Â People have been searching for the next thing in computing, the next really big jump forward for quite a while now. Â We’ve seen quantum computing and crystal computing, now it looks like we might be in a position to see biologic computing as well.
http://www.hephaestusproject.com/blog/2013/02/03/infinitely-expandable-computing-using-three-dimensional-configurable-nand-gates/#.UQ32xqV1GuI
