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...heading into the second, or growth, quarter, when hot new industries appear, much as semiconductors and software did in the second quarter of the info economy. Thus biotech will pave the way for the bioec era. During the next two decades, organic biotech will overlap with inorganic silicon infotech and inorganic composite materials and nanotechnologies...
During the overlap of infotech and biotech, we will be digitizing many biological processes. Up until now, four kinds of information dominate: numbers, words, sounds and images. But information comes in many other forms, such as smell, taste, touch, imagination and intuition. The problem is that our technologies for smell, taste and other new information forms aren't yet developed enough to make them commercially viable. By the 2020s, they will...
...greatest wild card, the sector with the vastest potential and murkiest future, is biotech. Developments that will cure cancer and extend human life beyond age 150 will arrive in this century. If one enterprise were to commercialize these developments in some proprietary way, then it's easy to imagine that firm's becoming the world's largest by far. But these are matters of life and death, so it's just as easy to imagine political pressures preventing biotech from spawning the globe's biggest company...
...dozen companies and academic research centers have been working without fanfare on devices that can replace all or part of a failing heart. Getting ever smaller and safer, partial hearts have quietly been keeping patients alive for several years now. And before the year is out, a Danvers, Mass., biotech company called Abiomed expects to achieve what Harvard surgeon Gus Vlahakes dubs the "big enchilada in heart disease"--a completely implantable grapefruit-size artificial heart...
More importantly, the plan certifies the use of certain scientific tests to detect the presence of biotech improvements in foods. These tests would be used in food labeled biotech free, to ensure uniformity in quality. Those who are afraid of the new technology will have the option to eat unaltered food, and research with genetically altered food can continue until it is proved sufficiently safe. And even the most skeptical will no longer have to worry about being eaten alive by killer tomato catsup. Now that's food for thought...