Biotechnology

“And patches are a lot easier to roll out in the digital space. So, so maybe there's like some cyber thing. We figure out what the vulnerabilities we can release the patch. And then in, in principle, like almost immediately around the world, all the relevant sy…”

“It is now the case that in many subdomains, China is becoming the scientific leader in biotechnology and in life sciences, and that is a scary thought because ultimately China could end up engulfing the entire pharmaceutical industry and basically becoming the…”

“That level of frustration will eventually drive more individuals, I think to do this. Right. And so there's definitely, definitely some like safety, there's huge safety concerns. There's ethical concerns. There's, these are things that we have to work through,…”

“If the last decade was about sort of biologics and these new modalities, I think the next is going to be about speed and cost.”

“So I think we might be not too far away from a version of this question actually being real and not a sinister way that we heard from Putin energy this past week.”

“The sort of golden age of biotechnology is sort of the dark ages of physician burnout, because it's just impossible to keep up with all the new drugs and all the new mechanisms of action and so on.”

“Like, if only by applying, you know, dollars to energy that then goes into these models, will there be, ah, real breakthroughs in, you know, biological sciences, like being able to do new processes or come to a deeper understanding of you know, whether it's, a…”

“So it turns out, in the course of our research artificial intelligence is a general purpose technology, which is defined as you know, something that has a profound and lasting impact on the economy. You mentioned as a general purpose technology. Electricity. Y…”

“But individually, these groupings of technologies, these general purpose technologies aren't important. It's the convergence we discovered that matters. And what's happening is improvements in one begets improvements in the other. So there's this sort of flywh…”

“All of these weight loss drugs, like, right? That is also a product of AI and biotechnology.”

“If you want to really be able to maximize your ability to affect patients, Then moving over to something on the, say the biotech or pharmaceutical side, you're actually more likely to have a shot to actually impact an order of magnitude or two more than you wo…”

“We've more than tripled the number of technologies That you can produce drugs from, and that list I just kind of rattled off, that's not science fiction. The only things I've named are things that have proven themselves mature enough to actually have drugs com…”

“I think it's those two factors that are driving the boom, and I think, you know, it should be a couple decades at least of then improving these modalities, utilizing the information, and just getting a lot more drugs developed.”

“When you think about what actually drives the business or the returns of the funds, it is finding things early when they're misunderstood or simply no one's paying attention, doing the work, getting convicted, and then supporting it along multiple steps, stage…”

“Anybody who looks can see That no amount of computers, and artificial intelligence, and space technology, and nanotechnology, and biotechnology, and all that is going to stop continuing warfare, stop racism, stop climate destruction you know, or economic injus…”

“If mRNA vaccines were the key to defeating COVID, which I think they were, there's a whole lot more that that technology still has to do. My sense is that there are still many more extraordinary breakthroughs to come.”

“By the way, the message of my argument that we had transport innovations in the 20th century, and then in the first half of the 20th century, and communications innovations in the second half, is that the first half of the 21st century may not be all about com…”

“Made by a process that the Greeks would call biotechnē, which means life through craft, and it is the root of our word biotechnology.”

“However, in the 21st century it might be possible for the first time to translate economic inequality into real biological inequality. And once this starts, it becomes almost impossible to close the gap.”

“20, 25 year horizon that I'm talking about. So, so I think beyond that, yes, I think it's wide open, but I think, you know, for the next 25 years, I think this is what I'm talking about. I think computer science will continue to run everything. Software will c…”

“If you're developing technology in the biology space, you should know what your near term killer experiment is. And the experiment that if it does not work, It's, you know, kill mode for whatever you're developing. And you should know what that is. You should …”

“With computational biology, there are a lot, there are very interesting opportunities around diagnostics, where you can build a company in a way that's more similar to the way you build a computer science company. That's a lot of what we're funding, and so I t…”

“If I had stayed at school longer I would have studied what was at the time called biotechnology and now is called sometimes that sometimes synthetic biology, but that sort of stuff where you're really kind of pushing the edge of what computers and biology can …”