Electric Dream
You stand in the quiet lab, imagining a cell not as flesh but as a circuit. In your mind, membranes insulate, proteins align like wires, and electricity flows without harm. If the thought is right, you won't just test an idea—you'll bring a new form of life into being.
Scenario details
What if electricity didn't pass through life, but belonged to it? Bill Tuff turned the question over in his mind like a puzzle cube, sketching cells as circuits in the margins of his notebook. At five foot one, perched on a lab stool, he imagined membranes as insulation and proteins as wires. The thought experiment refused to leave him—and he was ready to test it for real.
The world Bill lived in was crowded with failing machines and fragile power grids. Cities depended on metals that corroded, wires that overheated, systems that broke faster than they could be repaired. Biology and technology remained strictly divided—labs above, factories below. In this brittle, electrified age, innovation wasn't about bigger power, but about survival through smarter design.
Bill Tuff’s objective is to engineer a unicellular organism from absolute scratch that can conduct electricity as efficiently and reliably as a metal wire. By fusing biology with circuitry, he aims to create living conductors that repair themselves, adapt to stress, and redefine the boundary between life and technology—solving the world’s growing dependence on fragile, nonliving systems.
