Can plants talk and feel and do things just like humans? Pretty much, says INK Fellow Harpreet Sareen, a pathbreaking innovator in bio-digital technologies, speaking at INK 2023: Futureverse. For instance, Sareen has bioengineered plants to become sophisticated, living sensors capable of detecting water impurities and transmitting that data. Sounds like sci-fi, but Sareen’s innovations are very real and already proving their enormous potential.