We have embarked on a series of forced evolution experiments to ultimately give the power of personal computing to mitochondria. A bicycle for the mind is how Steve Jobs described the Mac. Peter Hirshberg, who demos our first product in the series worked at Apple and was hired by Jobs in 1984. His job at the time was to popularize the idea that everyone should have the ability to do personal computing in an era where mainframes and minicomputers ruled. Peter turned 70 this month always said he wanted to live to see the day that we could spread the power of computing to all creation. Consider these the first seeds of the syn-bio edition, Pippin Windfall. While it isn’t yet a bicycle for mitochondria (that’ll take more iterations and the enlistment of our Squirrel friends,) it is a start at democratizing powerful tech. Though, as Peter points out, beware of cats.
