一个热衷复杂性的化学家，在TED上发表演讲，认为自己在两年内可以制造出可以“进化的物质”

Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive, TED.com

About this talk: Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete.

(介绍来自 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2011.18#35017)