Why Technology (and AI) Won’t Save Biology

There seems to be no end to biology's explosive progress. Genomes can now be read, edited, and rewritten with unprecedented scope. Individual neurons can now be studied in both space and time. Mathematical models help us understand the dynamics of virus spread and ecological populations, and vaccines for deadly diseases like HIV and Ebola seem to hold more promise than ever. Many say the twentieth century belonged to physics and the twenty-first belongs to biology, and indeed, this sentiment seems...