1. The Digital Biome
Re-engineering the Ecosystem to Survive and Thrive in the 21s Century
Ramez Naam@ramez

2. Welcome to the Anthropocene
3. 4. Global problems, global risks
5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Ocean Acidification
17. 18. 19. CATCH SOARING
20. Depleted Fisheries
21. Fish Tons Per Unit Effort
22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Annual Rice Yields in China.Source: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042809-112206
30. 31. Species Loss
32. 33. 34. Peak Oil: Projections
35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance?(At M. Vassars Request)
43. 44. Biology as Info Tech
45. 46. 47. 48. 49. Goal:100,000 Genomes by 2020
50. 2020: $10 Human Genome
51. 52. 53. 54. 55. Knowing is Half the Battle
56. The Other Half is Doing
57. If the Genome is Digital
58. Can We Edit It?
59. 60. 61. Tools from biology
62. 63. 64. When you think of all the things that are made from oil and the chemical industry and the fuel industries if in the future we could find cells to replace most if not all of these processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.
-- Craig Venter
65. Algae Based Biofuels
66. 67. 68. 69. Tobacco Mosaic Virus
70. 71. 72. GM Eucalyptus Trees
73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 5 Days
84. The fundamental limits
85. 86. 87. Fresh Water
88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 13%
94. Increasing Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield
Xin-GuangZhu, Stephen P. Long, and Donald R. Ort, Annual Review of Plant Biology
Timeline of boosting photosynthetic efficiency.Source: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042809-112206
95. 96. Winning the Race
97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. US Energy Spending: One Trillion Dollars
You Are Here
104. 105. 106. 107. Supply
Price
Demand
Behavior
108. 109. Garbage Data
110. Perceived Infinite Supply of:
111. Atmospheric CO2 Absorption
112. Ocean CO2 Absorption
113. Ocean Fish (at any given time)
114. Fresh Water Aquifers
115. Garbage Model:Distortions
116. 117. Clean Up Our Inputs
118. Clean Up Our Model
119. Price or Regulate Commons
120. Remove Distortions
121. Invest in R&D
122. Incentivize Conservation
123. Incentivize Efficiency
124. Incentivize Innovation
125. Maximize Odds of Success
126. Minimize Odds of Catastrophe
127. 128. 129. Ramez Naam@ramez