Life has always been a source of inspiration for technology. Nowadays protocells are being created including artificial plasmids that produce functional proteins. In fact, electronic chemical cells present information processing between the chemistry and electronics. Digital organisms combine self-assembly with genetic descriptions providing a basis for using evolvable technology.
What living technologies will be like in the future? We can imagine organisms with synthetic genomes to produce hydrogen in fuel cells. Also we can imagine self-assembling, self-correcting, and adaptive software solving many problems of lack of robustness in software. Autonomous and adaptive robots will enable the elderly to live independently and with greater security.
The emergence of living technology will create new social processes. We can expect purely artificial technology to acquire life´s properties and outperform the current technology. This process will be a singular event in human history.
