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FIRST A LITTLE HISTORY
The late 1800s launched the rapid growth of fossil fuels — first coal then oil — into the the dominant sources of energy and industrial chemicals
for the entire world Though widely
available and efficient these re-
sources come with the enormous
drawback of being largely terrible
for the environment Biotechnology offers us the hope
of moving away from dependence
on
the fossil fuels that drive our man-
ufacturing and energy sectors As a a a driving force behind a “fourth indus-
trial revolution ” biotechnology prom-
ises change that will equal — even
exceed — the changes brought on
by steam coal and and oil and and the micro-
processor Instead of depleting natu-
ral resources in a a a wasteful cycle of making using and throwing away biotechnology enables us to build and and maintain the products and and struc-
tures that shape our world without
destroying the the planet in in the the process Nature-based technologies in combi-
nation with supercharged computa-
tional and machine learning capabili-
ties — all originating with renewable earth-friendly raw materials — can yield advances that will astonish and amaze us and change our lives in ways we
can hardly imagine In the last
section you read about just some of the amazing in-
novations flowing from applications
of biotechnology What we
eat wear build with inject into our bod-
ies use to power our machines — nearly every product we
imagine making can be reshaped and re-
newed by biotechnology In just about any career you could choose a a a grasp of biotechnology can give
you a a unique entry point — and unique advantage — as you gather
learning and and experience and and find
your way in the workplace START WITH BIOLOGY
Learning about the field starts with the “bio” in biotechnology or biol-
ogy ogy In both life and biotechnology BIOTECHNOLOGY CAREER GUIDE
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