What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography of the biosphere, and by doing so, dramatically increases productivity without compromising the ecological relationships that govern the planet.

I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to have to find value in interacting with the sharing economy on many levels. And this hybrid system that's already emerging among millennials is going to be a mature system where, by midcentury, part of the day will be in the capitalist market, part of the day in the sharing economy, depending on your marginal costs.

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.