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508. Maureen McHugh, author of After the Apocalypse and Mothers and Other Monsters

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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Are Bacterial Computers on the Horizon?

There are actual bacterial computers. There's a real reason for having bacterial computers. The problem is, it's really hard to create an inner face that can sort through all those molecules. But i would not take it as a very serious speculation. Iin the story there, they're making sort of batteries with like, electric eold geans and snuff like that. Ye, we can make a cluster of cells in a petry dish that will shock you, but i don't do the math to figure out if this would be efficient or not. So i'm thinking it's not on the horizon. Humph. R ye i and like us at that i don't know really.

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