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J CRAIG VENTER lecture worth a careful read. " "" " 'What Is Life: A 21st Century Perspective' by J. Craig Venter on the 70th Anniversary of Schrödinger's Lecture at Trinity College [7.12.12] http://lnkd.in/i7R2dG View in LinkedIn

NEW HOMINIDS. "In the long-term, we’re going to fundamentally alter the human species. That’s happened some 30 times before, but we’re going to do it much faster. We’re going to have many variants of humans as opposed to a single variant. We’re going to identify genes that are positive and negative". (Juan Rodriquez)." " http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-juan-enriquez-futurist-on-the-intersection-of-science-business-and-society/10185 View in LinkedIn

LIFE TELEPORTER. "This Digital Biological Converter is not a myth, the United States government emails my Institute a new pandemic viral sequence, and we have 12 hours to try and make the new vaccine, get it to Novartis to get ready to scale up.. But you're going to see this developing very rapidly where, in the same way the telephone interpreted signals coming through a wire, instead of hearing sound, you're going to be able to get biology coming out of your computer or your telephone wire." (J Craig Venter)." " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

THE BIO-KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY. "In the medium-term, you’re going to have an enormous life sciences-driven economy in the same way you now have an enormous digital economy... Forty-two percent of DuPont’s earnings and 14 percent of General Electric’s earnings come out of life sciences and health care. Entire nations’ economies will be significantly dependent on things like life sciences". (Juan Enriquez). " " http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-juan-enriquez-futurist-on-the-intersection-of-science-business-and-society/10185 View in LinkedIn

COPERNICAN REVOLUTION. "But DNA is not the engine of life, it's the software of life; the proteins are the engines, they're driven directly by that code in a very understandable, predictable fashion now. This has implications in many different areas." (J Craig Venter). " " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k. View in LinkedIn

COLONIZING PLANETS by email? "Depending on how close moon and Mars are to each other, it takes between four minutes and twenty-one minutes for an electromagnetic wave, for light, to go from Earth to Mars. But imagine you're on a colony on Mars, and you want a new cell that produces food, or fuel, or some medicine, or a vaccine, you can just e-mail that and convert it back into biology." (J Craig Venter). " " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

WE ARE CYBER. "The idea that you're basically a DNA-driven software device is not the view that people necessarily have of themselves. But every cell on this planet works that way in a biological-to-mechanical kind of fashion. We produce life by writing new software." (J Craig Venter). " " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

EMAIL A DISEASE? . "Obviously the downside is you could instead of giving your partner a genetic disease or an infection, you can e-mail it. So people could use this to do harm, as we see with computer viruses all the time. You would, of course, want good computer and biological virus protection on your DNA decoder." (J Craig Venter)." " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

FAST VACCINE. Most egg-hatched vaccines hit the market too late, but now SynBio is changing that. "We can now make a new flu vaccine in less than twelve hours using synthetic DNA. Instead of having to deal with a major pandemic where you can't travel out of your home or your city, imagine that you had a little box next to your computer, and you got an e-mail, and that gave you a chance to actually make a vaccine instantly, sort of like 3D printers." (J Craig Venter)" " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

85,000 new chemical registered since WWII, and only 200 tested. No wonder we are full of sickness. http://lnkd.in/AUdeiZ View in LinkedIn