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DISRUPTIVE EFFICIENCIES. "In the past 25 years, modern society has seen many disruptive innovations, most of which have been based on a single platform: the internet. The key feature of most disruptive innovations is their ability to exploit and eliminate inefficiencies in existing systems. The connectedness enabled by the internet has allowed companies across a range of industries to replace traditional, capital-intensive approaches with new ways of doing business." https://lnkd.in/dPP5UrP View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS these two weekends looking at RNA virus quasispecies. No other creature on this planet has such a high rate of mutation, and viruses are the largest pool of genetic diversity; they actively exchange genes between them and with their hosts. These shimmering and shape-shifting populations have played a key role in evolution, and equally, when the symbiotic spectrum is at the extreme, represent diseases that can be very hard to treat. That said, the vast majority of viruses are benign, and co-exist happily with their host ecosystems. View in LinkedIn

INNOVATION is intimately linked to economic growth. "A large proportion of US economic growth in the 20th century was derived from technological and related innovation." https://lnkd.in/dEAvzMk View in LinkedIn

SHIFTING CLOUD. "Quasispecies theory has encouraged viewing and examining viruses as complex mutant spectra, and not merely as simple genetic entities that can be described with a defined nucleotide sequence, as believed only a few decades ago." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001580 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR PROGRAMMING. "We envision that molecular programming will provide new insights and solutions to grand challenges in biology, chemistry, materials science, and medicine." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

ON SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. Like the previous revolutions, this “molecular programming revolution” will take much of its theory from computer science, but will require reformulation of familiar concepts such as programming languages and compilers, data structures and algorithms, resources and complexity, concurrency and stochasticity, correctness and robustness." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR PROGRAMMING. "Another revolution is just beginning, one that will result in new types of programmable systems based on molecules." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

APPLICATIONS. "Convergence is a new paradigm that can yield critical advances in a broad array of sectors, from health care to energy, food, climate, and water." https://lnkd.in/dEAvzMk View in LinkedIn

LEAP FORWARD. "The convergence revolution is a paradigm shift." https://lnkd.in/dEAvzMk View in LinkedIn

BLUEPRINT. "We see convergence as a blueprint for innovation." https://lnkd.in/dEAvzMk View in LinkedIn