Living technology
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This article is about technology with properties essential to life. For life engineered in biotechnology and synthetic biology, see Synthetic life.
For biomimetic technology, see Biomimetics. For biologically inspired engineering, see Bionics.
Living technology is the field of technology that derives its functionality and usefulness from the properties that make natural organisms alive (see life). It may be seen as a technological subfield of both artificial life and complex systems and is relevant beyond biotechnology to nanotechnology, information technology, artificial intelligence, environmental technology and socioeconomic technology for managing human society.