Juan Enriquez

About Juan

• Grew up in Mexico; went to Harvard for his undergraduate studies then moved back to Mexico to work for the government.
• While there, a war broke out; he ended up playing a crucial role in the peace treaty between the government and the Zapatista rebels.
• Got "tired of being shot at," returned to Harvard to write a book, finish his graduate work.
• Started learning about genomics, the science of how genes get stitched together, and wrote his book on how this science will change our economy.
• Says that it's impossible for to know where we'll be working in 10 years because most of those fields don't exist yet.
• His company made the world's first synthetic life form, can now program cells from scratch and cater them to certain needs.
• Explains that humans have begun to engineer evolution, and will likely someday engineer our own race.
• Says that this idea scares some people, but it excites him because it will open up new fields of research, new jobs and opportunities.