If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.
Juan EnriquezAnytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.
Juan EnriquezAs from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
Juan EnriquezThere are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.
Juan EnriquezOne of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.
Juan EnriquezThree-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
Juan EnriquezIf you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of.
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