Ben Lamm

No, I remember that program.

But that was what we were taught, right?

That was the thought process, right?

And so I just believe that there's an abundance.

People, they get worried about AI.

It's like, no, there was a time where people were like, well, the printing press is going to take all of our jobs.

And it's like, but it didn't, right?

It's just people evolved and created new opportunities.

You know, like look at like all the chip manufacturers, look at all the programmers, like all these different kind of waves of technology innovation have just created more jobs.

Like I think that Colossal will help usher in a world of synthetic biology where we're engineering animals and plants and everything to coexist better, right?

Like coral.

But coral's fucked.

Like, the oceans are fucked.

Coral's fucked.

And, you know, heat and salinity and all these things are bad.

And they are changing the temperatures and the currents of the ocean.

And microfragmentation, while a lot of great, smart scientists are working on that, it's a way of breaking coral and growing it in a way where it grows about 10 times faster.

But if the coral can't exist in where it's going, that doesn't really matter.

So you have to insert genome engineering into coral to truly save our coral reefs.

They're dwindling, right?