Please don’t eat me! | The Spectator Australia

This just in. Scientists have taught spinach how to send emails. 

Idiots at MIT, who never watched enough sci-fi horror as kids, have used nanotechnology to turn the vegetable into a living piece of tech that can detect explosives, relating their findings wirelessly via an email to their scientist overlords. 

Plant nanobionics is a real thing which describes a field of science that deals with the interaction of a plant’s complex natural systems and nanotechnology (technology that works on an atomic and molecular level). The field was theorised about long before there was any realistic prospect of physical application, but roll around to 2021 and we’re trying to stitch electronics into the molecular structure of plants…