The template forbiohacking'sfuturemaybetheInternationalGeneticallyEngineeredMachine (iGem) competition, heldannuallyattheMassachusettsInstitute of Technology.
The hut may well become a benchmark forfuture Alpine huts, with its designer, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, continuing to research its energy and resource use.
Roy Amara, longtime president of theInstitutefortheFuture, said that people tend to overestimate the effect of a new technology in the short run and underestimate the effect over the long term.