‘Let’s create the OS of life’

Thinking at the OS level

Johnson believes we are at one of the most exciting moments in history. “At no other time has the distance between imagination and creation been so narrow,” he notes on Medium. “We now have the power to build the kind of world we could previously only dream of. With new tools such as 3D printing, genomics, machine intelligence, software, synthetic biology and others, we can now make in days, weeks or months things that previous innovators couldn’t possibly create in a lifetime.”

Johnson suggests we need a new metaphor to effect real change for humanity at a global scale: “We need to “think and operate on a fundamental level: the operating system … In the same way that computers have operating systems at their core — dictating the way a computer works and serving as a foundation upon which all applications are built — everything in life has an operating system (OS). It is at the OS level that we most frequently experience a quantum leap in progress.”

He believes OS-level thinking can “redefine medical discovery and cure aging; recreate the biological toolset of our existence; become a multi-planetary species; reinvent global transportation infrastructure; enhance our minds; safely create advanced machine intelligence; and produce abundant clean energy. …

“If you are working on a quantum-leap discovery that promises to rewrite the operating systems of life, we hope to hear from you.”

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Our First Glimpse of the Web that Connects All Galaxies

Astronomers say all of the galaxies in the universe are connected by a vast cosmic web of filaments, but we've never actually seen this supposed network. That's changed, however, thanks to the tumultuous activity of a distant quasar that's illuminating the celestial backdrop.

We already know about these filaments, at least conceptually, because computer simulations tell us they're there. As the universe cooled after the Big Bang, most of its matter (including and especially dark matter) congealed into a network of filaments that spanned the cosmos. Certain points of this web contained more mass than others, eventually resulting in the formation of stars, galaxies, and galactic clusters. So even though the Big Bang happened long ago and its galaxies are now far apart, virtually everything's still connected within this web of vestigial matter.

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