Re: Fortune Article: Blessings from the Book of Life

From: eyehi (eyehi@geocities.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 20:47:58 MST


Agree! Agree!!!
Eye

"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Frank Prengel wrote:
>
> > http://www.fortune.com/fortune/2000/03/06/bio.html
> >
> > "Blessings from the Book of Life
> > Decoding the human genome will yield a bounty of biotech
> > miracles that will transform our lives in the next 40 years."
>
> Pessimists, bloody #$#*$# pessimists. Forty years is the amount
> of time it took to understand that DNA was the information
> carrier (1953), to the time people seriously started adding big
> chunks of it to the databases (1993).
>
> If we can't move faster than that in our information enhanced
> environment, then there are some people who should be taken out
> of the lab and shot to make room for the youngsters who don't
> have as many preconceptions about what "can't" be done!!!
>
> Ten years, ten years, I tell you, no more than ten years!
> If we don't have significant progress by then, we will clearly
> have in its place, evidence of our conservatism murduring people.
>
> R.



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