"The arrival of AI has turned intelligence into a technology. For all of human history, intelligence has been housed in complex, mushy brains that we still don't really understand - let alone know how to engineer. Now we have machines that are intelligent. That means intelligence can start to do all the things that technologies can do: scale up in scope, drop down in price, and keep getting better and better."
"The same thing happened in the world of energy. For all human history, energy was a finite commodity - we collected fuel and then burned it. But then we figured out how to use technologies like solar cells to tap into near-limitless sources of energy. Now that energy is tied to a technology, we can keep up the engineering process to make it better and cheaper. Solar and wind power are already cheaper than electricity generated by carbon commodities."
Advanced bioengineering is transforming biology into an engineering discipline, comparable in scale and impact to the AI and Clean Energy ages. Engineering thresholds have enabled intelligence and energy to become technologies that scale, fall in price, and continually improve. By decoding biological processes, humans can now directly design and program living systems using biotechnologies. Bioengineering promises major gains in human health while enabling planetary sustainability through scalable biological solutions. Living systems will be designed, iterated, and deployed as technologies, creating opportunities to replace finite commodities and to reimagine production, energy, and ecological restoration at global scales.
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