
Steven Johnson & Michael Specter on the Future of Life
The Next Big Idea
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The Importance of Becoming Ready
I was listening to it yesterday in the final chapter where you were talking about making artificial dyes. What they're doing is so dying blue jeans is very destructive to the environment. We don't have ginkgo by works. And now a couple other companies are just trying to grow synthetic, brew it really synthetic dye that would be benign. They're also trying to do this with fertilizer. I think those things are compelling the way that the mRNA vaccines are compelling. If you know, it doesn't just have to be a vaccine. It can be food. The way we make our food is crazy. Now we're starting to grow food that tastes like meat. There are a bunch of
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