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I imagine a day, some time in the not too distant future when children and teenagers will be able to create their own genetically engineered machines, cure the diseases of the old and find new ways to build and extend the capabilities of humanity, moving from programming software to programing the physical world, through biology.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.