Ideas
22 min
When Biology Became Hardware
Lab-grown brain cells learned Pong faster than AI. Nobody knows who governs them.
Organoid Intelligence is the moment lab-grown human brain cells stopped being a metaphor for computing and started being a substitute. Two fields with incompatible rulebooks now operate on the same object, and the meeting format that worked for recombinant DNA in 1975 failed when it was tried again in 2025.
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One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.