[hanuman]

Biology has been eating the world for 4 billion years.

MA: "Bio today is where information technology was 50 years ago."

Bio today is still in the pre-transistor era of IT. There is no tool that doubles our capabilities to manipulate molecular processes every 18 months. No, genome sequencing does not count, it is "read only." No, as amazing and as promising as it is, CRISPR does not count. For the present we continue to merely tinker, which is invaluable and necessary to more forward. Maybe once we figure out how to efficiently, reproducibly engineer enzymes, which truly accelerate molecular processes, we can claim that human-directed bio is eating the world. Until then, nature-driven bio is still on top.