Some of the exciting things we have seen or read about in science fiction, might be closer than you think.
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Unless you have spent the last few years in Outer Mongolia, you are aware of the efforts of several companies to take the next step upward with industrial automation. Amazon has announced that they are going to use unmanned helicopters to deliver your orders to your front lawn. They are willing to spend one billion dollars to develop and implement the technology. You might not have learned of a project that involves driverless cars to do something similar. The mechanics of this program makes me wonder if we will see this before we have machines like the ones on the Jetsons cartoons fluttering around our neighborhoods. Click on the link below and watch an interesting video. If you are a science fiction writer, you might wonder if technology has run off and left you while you were slumbering at your keyboard.
Our human genome is full of viruses similar to HIV-1. These have played an important role in human evolution and still play an important role in human embryology and day-to-day chemistry. Just how important are they to our evolution past and future?
The symbiotic pattern of evolution is everywhere and allows us a very different and fascinating window into the way symbiotic viruses work, since all viruses are symbiotic, including those involved in our human reproduction.
