Engineering Living Machinery to Re-define Humanity’s Next Era

Neo-Life as Technology

For decades, I’ve envisioned the use of GMMOs (genetically modified micro- and nano-organisms) not only for longevity medicine to break the Dawn Of Artificial Immortality but also as a potential cure for cancer — precision-engineered biological agents capable of detecting, targeting, and neutralizing disease at the cellular or molecular level. That same thinking extends naturally to environmental restoration: whether harvesting ultra-trace gold from seawater using engineered biomineralizing microbes or deploying tailored organisms, enzymes, or biomimetic systems to capture and degrade micro- and nanoplastics, the underlying principle is the same — harnessing and directing biological machinery for large-scale, targeted, high-efficiency interventions that conventional methods cannot match.

The Sea Of Gold

Engineering microbes to “farm” gold from the sea is exactly the kind of wild, useful thinking that launches real research. Theoretically some microbes can precipitate or concentrate gold, and turning them into a `salmon-like` life-cycle harvesting system in the open ocean needs engineering and scientific determination.

How much gold are we even talking about?
Measurements show ocean gold is extremely dilute. A commonly cited estimate is about 1 gram of gold per 100 million metric tons of seawater (so on the order of 10 picograms per liter). That’s why historic attempts to “mine the…