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Yes, according to Juan Enriquez, Managing Director of Excel Venture Management: like the digital revolution before it, the genomics revolution will deliver on the hype. The result will be a huge boon for smart investors. “Not only are we reading life code,” he told Big Think in a 2009 interview, “we’re beginning to copy it through cloning, and we’re beginning to write. And in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.”
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Enriquez stresses that “life code” (the famous A, G, T, C of DNA) will have the same importance for the next generation as digital code (1’s and 0’s) does now. “Just as from the 1970’s onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.” The effects won’t just be felt by Proctor and other members of her industry. “It’s not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they’re 100 years old on regrown body parts, with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.”
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