Eric Schmidt, PhD, formerly the CEO of Google, believes the next wave of groundbreaking technological achievements will be based in human health, CNBC reports.
At the SynBioBeta conference in San Francisco this week, Dr. Schmidt reportedly predicted that "biology will undoubtedly fuel computing" in the next several years. This "enormous accelerator" could manifest as projects in which vision data is used to generate powerful algorithms or smart assistants aid in advancing medical research, he suggested.
"I'm always interested in the question: What is changing the fastest right now? Because whatever that is is determining the history of next year," Dr. Schmidt said. "There's lot of evidence that biology is in that golden period right now."
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