The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

I imagine a day, some time in the not too distant future when children and teenagers will be able to create their own genetically engineered machines, cure the diseases of the old and find new ways to build and extend the capabilities of humanity, moving from programming software to programing the physical world, through biology.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.