Scientists Are Literally Spinning Up Lab-Grown Meat

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: Scientists Are Literally Spinning Up Lab-Grown Meat
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:05:28
• Published: 2019-10-23 13:12

When Cypher is selling out his compatriots over dinner with Agent Smith in The Matrix, he muses: “I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.” In a simulation like the Matrix, ones and zeroes represent every nuance of that steak—the texture, the smell, the flavor.