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It allows for the printing of complex 3D structures using bioinks and living cells, with the potential to create functional human tissues and even organs in the future.
Hazza hopes that, with the capabilities of technology rapidly advancing, once seemingly impossible missions – like going to the Moon, which takes three years – will happen in his lifetime.
“ We’ re constantly inventing new technologies and things that will help us down the road,” he says.“ With the private sector on board, it makes it more accessible and easier to go to space.” So will technology eliminate the need for astronauts all together?“ Human intelligence and the feeling of understanding things as a human brain is still better than a machine,” Hazza says.“ The eye of a scientist looking can analyse in a different way to a machine itself. AI is reaching a very high level, but our brains are still more complex.”
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