To be fair, CRISPR-based technology looks to be a much, much bigger deal than Page Rank. It's not really much of a stretch to analogize this to the invention of the planar transistor, or the internal combustion engine.
Deep breath. ICE and the transistor have been around for decades. Centuries in fact, in the case of the former. It's not even clear that pagerank is being used now; I can almost guarantee you it won't be in 50 years. Given the pace of biotech discovery I suspect CRISPR won't either.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1523369/