Just a little further out on the productivity frontier are commercially viable self-driving cars and trucks. Likewise, synthetic biology will be possible before too long, with scientists using the huge amount of increasingly available and inexpensive genetic data to design DNA from scratch – a practice that has applications in medicine, agriculture, and even biofuel production.
生产力前沿稍远处就是具有商业应用价值的自动驾驶汽车和卡车。同样，合成生物学用不了多久就会成为现实，届时科学家将利用数量巨大且不断增加的廉价基因数据从零开始设计DNA——这项技术在医学、农业甚至是生物燃料制造领域具有广阔的应用前景。