"Science, natural engineering and re-engineering can now be used to make the world able to design animals," said Dr. Nicholas Negroponte, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. "The world is approaching an era in which all human diseases can be eradicated.
The Council of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, presented a lecture entitled "Biotechnology, the title of the next digital age", delivered by Dr. Nicholas Negroponte, President of MIT's Media Lab, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Elders, officials and dignitaries.
During the lecture Negroponte predicted that humans learn languages by taking capsules or pills that enter the body and interact with the bloodstream and live inside it to deal with the brain from inside the body.
He pointed out that the future branches of information technology will be synthetic biology, genomics (a branch of genetics that studies the genetic material in the bodies of organisms), and so-called computing life sciences, adding that these will be the new applications of the new information age, To what became known as "massive data" along with other components.
"The lesson we learned in the digital revolution is the tremendous value of radical ideas, which seemed anomalous at the time, but found a safe haven in universities," he said. "The world has always been seen by supporters of those ideas who belong to different disciplines as unfriendly, This will certainly happen again with biotechnology emerging as the next digital age interface. "
He spoke about the future of the world in light of the expected technological development. He said that the MIT Media Laboratory includes a generation of young scientists who will change the world map. Some of them work on an innovation that can read what is going on in the human mind. A person with Alzheimer's disease and an understanding with him, a third to redistribute the genes in the human body for disease eradication, and a fourth to conduct research on growing food without soil or soil. He expected to create a cure for Alzheimer's disease within 5 to 15 years.
He stressed that the idea of artificial intelligence was not born before the digital age, and so far humans can not live the technology of "deciding" directly, that is to be expressed in words, images or sounds so that the system of simple human sensor delivery to the brain.