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Robert Carlson

Carlson is a principal at Biodesic, a biological engineering, consulting, and design firm in Seattle. He is the author of Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and Inevitability of Engineering Life, which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Carlson earned a doctorate in physics from Princeton University in 1997. He maintains the blog “Synthesis.”