Called, shaping San Francisco. Thanks. Yee, welcome to cspan. Welcome to the vast audience at cspan programing across the United States and across the world. Were happy to have you all with us tonight at our shaping San Francisco talks. This talk tonight is on Synthetic Biology, diy meets big capital is the title they gave it. It is really borne out of a long interest i have had, in some ways the roots of shaping San Francisco which is Community Participatory history project but rooted in ses lendings acritical relationship to technology. We started in the mid 90s during the big boom then of interactive multimedia and kind of way before there was even web 1. 0 really. We were already working on this project. Weve gone through quite a few iterations. We all lived through endless rounds of hysteria technology will save us and take us to the Promised Land and so on and so one of the interesting topics for me is to try to think about what is the moment in history that youre living through
We could have done so make cool, great things but all these ethical blogs, all these things keeping us from the, sort of like this attitude is, like this profit driven world and all these kinds of things have kept us from exploring incredible possibilities. Like if we could and views that curiosity precisely in this different way of approaching all this, which is like what new incredible societies could we get to if we harnessed our genius in a purposeful weight in that direction a . See what i mean . By turning it on its head. We really are out of time but if you have a last comment from the panel i would welcome the chance. Short sweet comment. Spill i totally get what your talking about because ive seen a. Ive seen it over and over again. The biggest opportunity for biocurious 2010 was getting equipment together, getting maybe 1 million worth of Lab Equipment that we bought for 20,000. That was the opportunity. That opened it up to lets say a couple thousand people, a couple thousan