Balaji Srinivasan: Living in the Future

I feel really bad for somebody who is a morning person, is extremely 9-5, wants a routine, doesn't like computers, wants to come into the office every day and high-five somebody—essentially the kind of person that the 1950s was built around. Nothing against that person ... That morning person-type mentality is just the opposite of the way the world... See more

It's actually kind of interesting how little collaborative work is done on the Internet. I mean, we have Wikipedia—that's one of the great ones. There's obviously GitHub... There's Google Docs. You might say, 'Well that is a lot of collaborative work,' and I agree, but I think there's so much more that can be done. Why aren't there more things like... See more

The reason genomics is important is that your genome is your OS. That is your operating system, and we now can read the source code for that. You can actually look at that on the computer, and you can see how your genes help determine your body, your metabolism, [and] your makeup. And you can click those genes and see whether you can metabolize caf... See more