Word: developing
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...teams normally draft college players before or after their first season and allow the school to develop them. Players are automatically eligible for the draft...
...that the sequence data is available, however, Harvard is engaged in several large-scale projects to organize it and to develop technologies that allow for DNA copies of genes to be accessed readily by researchers...
...Students at other colleges, most of whom live in minuscule two-person boxers with cinder block walls and linoleum floors, tend to get jealous when they see pictures of elegant Harvard quarters. And with good reason. Harvard's dorms have some drawbacks, of course; students need to develop the stamina to climb stairs and a high tolerance for old architecture. But a housing system that involves working fireplaces, wooden floors, spacious rooms and beautiful landscaping isn't such a bad start to a Harvard career...
Computers, biotechnology and nanotech don't work that way. They are self-accelerating; that is, the products of their own processes enable them to develop ever more rapidly. New computer chips are immediately put to use developing the next generation of more powerful ones; this is the inexorable acceleration expressed as Moore's law. The same dynamic drives biotech and nanotech--even more so because all these technologies tend to accelerate one another. Computers are rapidly mapping the DNA in the human genome, and now DNA is being explored as a medium for computation. When nanobots are finally perfected...
...should not forget, however, that we will also want robots to man the factories and do our chores. We do not have ethical concerns about our refrigerators working seven days a week without a break or even a kind word. As we develop robots for the home, hospitals and just about everywhere else, we will want them to be similarly free of ethical issues...