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rhody
Dec15-09, 05:56 PM
Futurist: Juan Enriquez:
who, quoting his TED bio (http://www.ted.com/speakers/juan_enriquez.html):

"thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and other life sciences will cause in business, technology, politics and society."

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Video (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/juan_enriquez_shares_mindboggling_new_science.html )


If you watched the last video I posted by Mr Enriquez,
I hope by now you will agree that he is an interesting, funny, and knowledgeable speaker.
This one is impressive.

Highlights:

01:00 Ability to engineer cells, tissues, robots
01:50 Describes bank debt ratio, why we are: "Dancing in the Flames..."
07:00 As we cut we have to grow
07:40 Ability to engineer microbes, tissues, robots, leading to -> Ultimate Reboot
08:00 Craig Venter: Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter): fully programmable cell
12:10 Reboot skin cells to stem cells: 2008
13:00 Physical "Touring Test"
14:30 Trends converge...
17:50 Mildly arrogant viewpoint
18:00 Summary: homo evolutus...

Enjoy: Rhody...