Biology...The OTHER Big Science
"Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. Biology is also more important than physics, as measured by its economic consequences, by its ethical implications, or by its effects on human welfare.
...
I predict that the domestication of biotechnology will dominate our lives during the next fifty years at least as much as the domestication of computers has dominated our lives during the previous fifty years."
- Freeman Dyson
Comments
For 10 years I'v ebeen saying "biology is everything". Dyson says it better- but I should get points for brevity- even if I lose more for crypticism.
Posted by: MDarling![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.blog.speculist.com/nav-commenters.gif)
|
July 12, 2007 04:57 PM
Even so, what's going to enable these huge leaps in biotechnology? Computer technology. You can't have one without the other, really, although Harry Harrison did a good job of presenting a high (bio) tech culture that had no electricity, no computers, etc. in the West of Eden series. Not that it matters, but that high tech culture belonged to the descendants of the dinosaurs.
Posted by: Phil Bowermaster![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.blog.speculist.com/nav-commenters.gif)
|
July 12, 2007 06:34 PM