
Brandon Turbeville
If some of the information emerging from
the technology, governmental, and academic worlds are any indication,
not only is the police state here; the scientific dictatorship is right
around the corner. Indeed, if recent comments
made by Juan Enriquez are indicative of the coming state merger between
technology and genetics, we have much to be concerned about.
For
those that are unfamiliar with Enriquez, he may not be the most flashy
of the science superstars currently on the scene, but he is not exactly a
nobody either. Enriquez was the founding director of the Harvard
Business School Life Sciences Project and is currently chairman and CEO
of Biotechonomy LLC., a “life sciences research and investment firm” and
managing director of Excel Venture Management. He is the author of
numerous books, including As The Future Catches You: How Genomics And Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth and The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future.
Enriquez also serves on the boards of Cabot Corporation, The Harvard Medical School Genetics Advisory Council, The Chairman’s International Council of the America’s Society, the Visiting Committee of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center, Tuft University’s EPIIC, and Harvard Business School’s PAPSAC.