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> We've got stuff that operates sort of like basic logic elements like relay switches did in electronics, but we're far from designing any complex integrated circuits.

Somehow this makes me think of the griping of background NPC scientists in the classic game Deus Ex, which I think has a rather high quality of year-2052 technobabble.

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DONOVAN: It's really a question of abstraction. [...] You can't be dealing with this sort of thing on the base-pair level.

LUNDQUIST: Essentially what I told Miss Chow. Tissue augmentation... it's not a matter of twiddling bits.

DONOVAN: We need to stay focused on tools.

LUNDQUIST: In principle... Yes, I agree.

DONOVAN: The older scientists don't grasp what it means to have so much data.

LUNDQUIST: Still, we have to throw them a bone once in awhile.

DONOVAN: With the right software, organism design should be indistinguishable from CAD/CAM.