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Innovative, Bottom-up Methods Will Solve Problems That Now Seem Intractable—from Energy To Poverty To Disease. Science And Technology, Powered By The Fuel Of Entrepreneurial Energy, Are The Largest Multipliers Of Resources We Have To Solve Our Many Social Problems.

As For Companies Invested In The Space - I Think Its Important To Distinguish Between A Good Investment And A Material Climate Change Technology - You Can Have The First Without The Second, Even In The "clean Tech" Space.

Your Cellphone Has 10 Sensors, And Your Car Has 400. But Your Body Has None - That's Going To Change.

Startups Allow Technologists And Scientists To Take Risks And Change Plans In A Way That Would Be Frowned Upon In A Big Company. Having Said That, Big Companies Will Play A Key Role In Certain Areas And In Partnerships With Little Companies. Each Has Its Strengths.

In The Next 10 Years, Data Science And Software Will Do More For Medicine Than All Of The Biological Sciences Together.