Biology Is Eating the World
Imagine a solar-powered, self-replicating, self-repairing machine that can do carbon capture, clean the air, and improve biodiversity in one go and it&#x27;s ridiculously cheap and easy to operate and maintain.<p>Yep a tree.<p>It always amazes me that people get excited about a new car, new phone or a new software release from a technical angle ( not what you can do with it - that&#x27;s fine ) - but also  don&#x27;t see the amazing machines called life all around us as interesting at all!<p>You are always the most complex type of machine in the room - by many orders of magnitude.<p>Yep, the risks are higher in biotech, yep the rewards are perhaps not as good as a Google etc, and it&#x27;s way harder. On the other hand it&#x27;s more interesting and in the end these companies are creating new treatments for cancer or heart failure etc.<p>Disclosure: I was part of a biotech &#x27;unicorn&#x27;.<p>In terms of whether we are at the cusp of a biotech revolution - I&#x27;d say it really kicked off 20-30 years ago and is already here - the new wave of immuno-oncology drugs transforming cancer treatment are a good example.<p>I think the role of computers in the future is a little overhyped - it&#x27;s necessary, but not the fundamental driver - the drivers are the new experimental technologies generating the data at unprecedented scale.