Speaker 2
if you do rewind a century or so back to the peak of the Industrial Revolution, what do you think the Industrial Revolution got right? And what do you think the Industrial Revolution got wrong? And what does this opportunity for the Nature Code Design Revolution that we're ushering in? What opportunities does it have to kind of rethink and look ahead to a new era of industrial manufacturing?
Speaker 1
Well, that's a big question. I think, of course, the Industrial Revolution got it right that it drove progress. And it was when multiple technologies were coming together in different places. So we had chemistry, we had steelmaking, but we also had telecommunication, electricity coming together. And I think what was absolutely right was the development that was coming. But the fact is, and this development that came into place was so fundamental that we're using some of those processes today. Still, we're still using the upper Bosch process that was invented in 1988 to produce nitrogen ammonia. And this we got it definitely right. And it was the best that we could get right back then. What we didn't get right was to think back then about the second and third order consequences. But this was the best we could do back then. I think the chance that we have now are twofold in my view. The first one is we have a big opportunity. And this is why I'm really excited about the year we're entering is that we've had a huge amount of advancement on the science side so that we can really deal with nature at different level. But what makes it even more exciting is the fact that we have a convergence of technology that are coming together that are really making this even more powerful than it would be alone on the science side. So we have, if you look at what is happening is you have the advancement of the biology, you have that advancement on the process automation with IEEE or IEEE and you have the AI coming into place. One day, one time computing, this is going to drive an acceleration. And that's why I was talking, it's coming in decades and not centuries because all of this technology is coming together are accelerating this. The other thing that gets me excited is the fact that now we have the opportunity to start thinking about and we have an obligation to do this to start thinking about it in an realistic way and thinking right now, even if what we're coming up since superior in terms of product and sustainability, we need to start thinking now about what could be the second and third order implication of the advancement that we're bringing in, something that we didn't do back then.