Abigail Kukura

Making a Moonshot Mindset for U.S. Leadership in Biotechnology

General-purpose technologies shape the destiny of nations. Francis Bacon remarked how, during the Renaissance, the printing press, gunpowder and the compass “changed the appearance and state of the whole world … first in literature, then in warfare and lastly in navigation.” We are on the cusp of another era in which not just one, but multiple technologies will transform national security, economy and society.