{"id":128570,"date":"2021-10-05T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-coming-age-for-tech-x-bio-the-industrial-bio-complex"},"modified":"2021-10-05T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:23:18","slug":"the-coming-age-for-tech-x-bio-the-industrial-bio-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-coming-age-for-tech-x-bio-the-industrial-bio-complex","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Age for Tech x Bio: The \u2018Industrial Bio Complex\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3d7zZz_niTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Driving this revolution has been a new breed and wave of founders and startups that merge the worlds of technology and bio \u2014 importantly, not just the old world of biotech (or a narrow definition of tech in bio as only \u201cdigital health\u201d), but something much broader, bigger, and blending both worlds. In short, biology \u2014 enabled by technology \u2014 is eating the world. This has not only changed how we diagnose, treat, and manage disease, but has been changing the way we access, pay for, and deliver care in the healthcare system. It is now entering into manufacturing, food, and several other industries as well. Bio is becoming a part of everything.<\/p>\n<p>This new era of <i>industrialized<\/i> bio \u2014 enabled by AI as well as an ongoing, foundational shift in biology from empirical science to more engineered approaches \u2014 will be the next industrial revolution in human history. And propelling it forward is an enormous new driving force, the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, its ever-evolving strains, and the resulting COVID-19 disease pandemic and response \u2014 which I believe is analogous to our generation\u2019s World War II (WW2). In other words: a massive global upheaval, but that later led to unprecedented innovation and significant new players.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we will now see the emergence of <i>bio\u2019s<\/i> version of GAFA \u2014 playing off the \u201cGoogle Amazon Facebook Apple\u201d of the leading companies in computing, social, mobile \u2014 but for bio. And with it, a post-WW2\/ post-Covid \u201cIndustrial Bio Complex\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving this revolution has been a new breed and wave of founders and startups that merge the worlds of technology and bio \u2014 importantly, not just the old world of biotech (or a narrow definition of tech in bio as only \u201cdigital health\u201d), but something much broader, bigger, and blending both worlds. In short, biology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,1506,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}