PREDICTING FUTURE UTILITY is very difficult. “In the long term, synthetic biology is likely to have as broad and pervasive a role in our society as the products of both the chemical and electronic revolutions.” The lessons learned from the unexpected rise of the modern pharma industry from the work of nineteen century synthetic chemists discovering dyes from coal tar products, also apply to Synbio. Equally, nobody guessed that the Human Genome Project would disrupt the medical paradigm. ”
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