Edge City

Takeaways from spending most of October at the @edgecity Lanna popup city in Chiang Mai, Thailand:

• I enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by curious, high-agency people (especially builders)

• between attending presentations, participating in DAOs and spontaneous excursions, felt a lot like a college campus (except everyone is a fully-grown adult and there of their own volition)

• editing plant genes, learning about @metamask delegators and discussing the future of stablecoins with @vitalik.eth in the room is a vibe

• got a taste of the “biohacker” lifestyle – sauna, cold plunge, measuring biomarkers with blood tests and fitness trackers

• Thai food is cheap and amazing; pleasantly surprised at the quality and variety of health-conscious food options (though food poisoning is no joke)

• digital nomading is hard when your company’s daily standup is effectively 11pm 😵

• popup cities inspired by @zuzalu and @ns are absolutely gonna explode next year and I am totally here for it

Zuzalu is the first of it's kind pop-up city concept creating playgrounds at the intersection of free and open tech, health, science and social innovation

Edge City convenes people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society in popup villages across the globe.

Apply to: https://www.edgecity.live/lanna

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As I understand it, they used CRISPR technology to isolate the genes that make beets red, then had us deliver them to the live plant cells by “infecting” the leaves with gene-editing agrobacterium. If done right, the leaves would eventually turn red.

As I understand it, they used CRISPR technology to isolate the genes that make beets red, then had us deliver them to the live plant cells by “infecting” the leaves with gene-editing agrobacterium. If done right, the leaves would eventually turn red.

https://x.com/joinedgecity/status/1847273343637954806

wow so super positive? for food i think you would be blown away if you go to indonesia or vietnam super cheap, but im curious about "editing plant genes" is this real? what do you change from the plant?