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Lecture of Dr. J Craig Venter 2007 along with comments by youtube viewers

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Dr J Craig Venter gave the annual Richard Dimbleby Lecture on UK’s BBC One TV channel on 4 December 2007. The text of his lecture follows.

Thank you for the kind introduction. It is a great honor to be presenting the 2007 Dimbleby Lecture as only the third American, and one of just a handful of scientists out of the 32 Dimbleby Lectures.

I have called this lecture A DNA-Driven World, because I believe that the future of our society relies at least in part on our understanding of biology and the molecules of life - DNA. Every era is defined by its technologies. The last century could be termed the nuclear age, and I propose that the century ahead will be fundamentally shaped by advances in biology and my field of genomics, which is the study of the complete genetic make-up of a species.

Our planet is facing almost insurmountable problems, problems that governments on their own clearly can’t fix. In order to survive, we need a scientifically literate society willing and able to embrace change - because our ability to provide life’s essentials of food, water, shelter and energy for an expanding human population will require major advances in science and technology.

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