“There is no wealth but life.”
John Ruskin
The magic of life
There is much we do not know about how life works to transform the basics of matter and energy into complex materials and massively diverse interdependent systems.
Despite many miraculous advances in science and technology, our manufacturing and production is often shamed by the scale, simplicity and systemic safety of life.
Arthur C Clarke’s famous quote — “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” — applies just as much to the wondrous technology of life as it does to as yet only imagined technology of a myriad science fictions.