[taylorportman]

Probably the 'manufacturing revolution' will be modifying yeast, plants, etc. to produce the chemical compound of interest. Everyone needn't have expensive equipment - testing can be outsourced. Such an effort would need a GPL like agreement to keep people honest, but the technology exists.

[kragen]

Conceivably, but I was a lot more enthusiastic about this possibility 35 years ago before the humans had much experience with it. It turns out DNA is a really shitty programming language for humans. Like, worse than Malbolge.