by Thomas Knight and Swati Sureka
Health Security
Biotechnological advancements are giving us unprecedented access to information about the world’s biological environment. Gathering and making sense of that information is a vital and urgent task as we seek to build a world free from the looming specter of the next global pandemic and resilient to the destabilizing effects of a crowded and manipulable information landscape. Moreover, as with satellite imagery, a wide variety of important collateral applications exist, ranging from environmental monitoring to enhancing bioengineering, to help unleash a sustainable bioeconomy. This is an ambitious project that certainly will not be built all at once—but the tools to realize this vision are within our grasp. We need a collective commitment to laying the global foundations to collect, analyze, and share biological intelligence.
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