President Obama, I Voted For Him. I

We Now Have An Opportunity, Though, To Do Something We Didn't Do In The Industrial Age, And That Is To Get A Leg Up On This, To Bring The Public In Quickly, To Have An Informed Debate.

Back In The Mid-1980s, Congressional Hearings Were Held After We Brought This Litigation, And Held Up The First Experiment. At That Time, I Went In Front Of Congress, Along With The Major Agencies Involved With This.

What The Public Needs To Understand Is That These New Technologies, Especially In Recombinant Dna Technology, Allow Scientists To Bypass Biological Boundaries Altogether.

With The Communication Internet, Whole Industries Have Been Disrupted. You're In The Publishing Industry, You Understand That. Before, We Had Newspapers, Magazines - Now You're On The Web. I'm In Book Publishing. I Don't Have To Tell You What's Happened To Us. Television Has Taken A Hit. The Music Industry. But, Thousands Of New Businesses Have Emerged On This New Communication Revolution Platform. Not Just Google, Facebook, And Twitter. There Are Thousands Of Operations. Businesses That Are Doing The Platforms, The Apps. They're Mining The Big Data. They're Creating The Connections.

Wikipedia Is An Amazing Construct. It's A Commons That Works. I Don't Know How Jimmy Wales Came Up With It. I'm Sure All Of Us Would Have Said, "this Is The Stupidest Thing We've Ever Heard Of. That'll Never Work In A Million Years."