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by monocasa 2540 days ago
> Will bacteria be “programmable” in the same way that a computer is?

> Hard to believe so maybe that’s not the right word for it.

They already are.

https://media.ccc.de/v/24c3-2329-en-change_me

That's a video from 2007 talking about how high school student can program bacteria. It's gotten a couple orders of magnitude easier and cheaper in the past decade since that talk.