Juan Enriquez
Juan Enriquez
Juan Enríquez Cabot is a Mexican-American academic, businessman, and speaker. He is Managing Director of Excel Venture Management, and is a best-selling author...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionEducator
CountryMexico
years flags sitting
Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
years important india
China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.
stars years president
Ask your friends how many stars will be in the U.S. flag in 50 years? And the reason why that's a reasonable question is because there has never been a President of the United States who's been buried under the same flag he was born under.
kids college years
There has to be some more regulation. But our kids have this incredible buffet of they can work in genomics, they can work in pre-omics, or they can work in robotics, or they can work in this, or they can work in that. And within the next five years there will be entirely new industries that come out of nowhere that kids are working in that would have been inconceivable when they started college. Not when we started college.
years next digital
As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
motivation inspiration years
Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.
agree behind people society sure system understand
We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart.
budget department energy genome good health human legal national project public social spent
One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.
deliberate direct species takes
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.
manipulate people
If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules.
gene humans
The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.
business commodity gotten hard knowledge margin mistakes oil
The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.
real people way
Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.
important empires lasts
The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.