“Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.” Quote by Juan Enriquez
“It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.” WritingHardAbleEconomyAreasCode Author:Juan Enriquez
“We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.” ThinkingTeethErasExtrasFuelGet RealBladderTextiles Author:Juan Enriquez
“It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.” IfsYearsEndsBodyRunningKidsQualityImagineHigherSurpriseBeachFloridaQuality Of LifeSurprise Me Author:Juan Enriquez
“Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.” CountryPowerfulTechnologyPositionRelativeMultipleImplicationsNew TechnologyReally Powerful Author:Juan Enriquez
“When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.” TechnologyRevolutionUnderstoodIndiaChinaDominantNew TechnologyIndustrial Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.” CountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsRevolutionIncomeDigitalSingaporeGhanaDigital Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.” PeopleMeanStillsDealsConsequenceDecidedCurrentsDebateEggsChickensFluVaccinesFlu Vaccine Author:Juan Enriquez
“The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.” Has BeensLastsBordersStableContinentsPanama Author:Juan Enriquez
“During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.” TalkingGoes OnPeriodsEnglandFranceSouthernScotlandWalesSplittingNormandySouthern Italy Author:Juan Enriquez
“It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.” PeopleLooksImportantDifferentCountryGranted Author:Juan Enriquez