{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"bits & atoms","link":"https:\/\/mattshams.com","description":"Writings on software, systems, and other curiosities.","language":"en-us","lastBuildDate":"Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:55:00 GMT","item":[{"title":"Self Driving Biology","link":"https:\/\/mattshams.com\/writings\/self-driving-biology","guid":"https:\/\/mattshams.com\/writings\/self-driving-biology","pubDate":"Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:18:00 GMT","description":"A pathfinding exploration of how biological experimentation is shifting from a human-driven craft to a programmable, machine-scale system, tracing the rise of self-driving laboratories at the intersection of AI, automation, and cloud infrastructure, and examining how this transition is reshaping discovery, economics, and governance across the life sciences, along with its tangible implications for longevity and healthspan extension."},{"title":"Blueprint for Engineered Healthspan","link":"https:\/\/mattshams.com\/writings\/the-fountain-of-youth","guid":"https:\/\/mattshams.com\/writings\/the-fountain-of-youth","pubDate":"Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:15:00 GMT","description":"A blueprint for translating the myth of eternal youth into the reality of engineered healthspan. As biology becomes programmable, aging ceases to be folklore and becomes a design variable. This essay outlines the civic and economic architecture,\u00a0**Longevity Innovation Zones**, and **Anchor Funds**, required to responsibly accelerate healthspan, mitigate demographic risk, and deliberately engineer the future of human time."},{"title":"Intelligent Biology","link":"https:\/\/mattshams.com\/writings\/intelligent-biology","guid":"https:\/\/mattshams.com\/writings\/intelligent-biology","pubDate":"Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:14:00 GMT","description":"An exploration of the convergence of AI, computational biology, and longevity finance that is reorganizing the foundations of modern civilization, shifting economies, governance, and the human life course toward the deliberate design of time, health, and capability. The central thesis is that humanity is crossing a threshold where biology becomes programmable and life itself becomes a domain of intentional design."},{"title":"From Scarcity to Symmetry: AI Compute Market","link":"https:\/\/mattshams.com\/writings\/from-scarcity-to-symmetry","guid":"https:\/\/mattshams.com\/writings\/from-scarcity-to-symmetry","pubDate":"Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:14:00 GMT","description":"The GPU is now the world's most critical resource, controlled today by a handful of hyperscalers. This deep dive presents why decentralized open markets offer a path to rebalance this power by enabling a pooled compute model with fair pricing and verifiable allocation, turning open compute capacity into a liquid, auditable asset using cryptographic proofs and data. It rebalances access, cost, and power in the era of intelligence liquidity."}]}}