{"id":30634,"date":"2010-11-14T09:11:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nyt-glimpsing-a-scientific-future-as-fields-heat-up\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T09:11:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:11:34","slug":"nyt-glimpsing-a-scientific-future-as-fields-heat-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/nyt-glimpsing-a-scientific-future-as-fields-heat-up.php","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Glimpsing a scientific future as fields heat up"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are in the midst of the biotechnology revolution and Gina Kolata of the New York Times<\/i> knows it:<\/p>

“I’ve learned over the years that the best predictor for what will be new and exciting is, ‘Expect the unexpected,’ ” said Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, a Nobel laureate who is professor and chairman of the department of medical genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.<\/i><\/p>

Dr. David Baltimore of CalTech, another Nobel laureate, said, “If you could predict it, it wouldn’t be a breakthrough.”<\/p>

But even if it’s impossible to predict a particular major discovery, one can sometimes sense when a particular area of science is taking off, says Dr. Richard Klausner, a former head of the National Cancer Institute who is now a managing partner in the Column Group, a venture capital firm. “It gets on a Moore’s Law curve,” he said, referring to an observation in computer science that the speed of computing keeps increasing exponentially.<\/p>

When that happens, Dr. Klausner said, “barriers and unknowns seem to be falling,” and it is pretty much predictable that even more exciting discoveries will be made.<\/p><\/blockquote>

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