Reminds me of what Bill Gates said 2010. Crazy how prescient he was. > Just ask Bill Gates. If he were a teenager today, he says, he’d be hacking biology. “Cre

Reminds me of what Bill Gates said 2010. Crazy how prescient he was. > Just ask Bill Gates. If he were a teenager today, he says, he’d be hacking biology. “Creating artificial life with DNA synthesis. That’s sort of the equivalent of machine-language programming,” says Gates, whose work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has led him to develop his own expertise in disease and immunology. “If you want to change the world in some big way, that’s where you should start — biological molecules.” Which is why the hacker spirit will endure, he says, even in an era when computers are so ubiquitous and easy to control. “There are more opportunities now,” he says. “But they’re different opportunities. They need the same type of crazy fanaticism of youthful genius and naèFvetè9 (sic) that drove the PC industry — and can have the same impact on the human condition.” http://web.archive.org/web/20110814132419/http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_hackers/5/ http://web.archive.org/web/20110814132419/http://www.wired.c...