2/ Led by Lux partner @AGoulburn around the Nobel prize winning work of Eric Betzig who looked to the far reaches of the solar system and discovered a breakthrough imaging technique for INNER SPACE to see in REAL-TIME what is happening in cells...
3/ I mean this technique of adaptive optics x lattice light sheet microscopy gives subcellular resolution. INSANE what this means for drug discovery when you can see how drugs work inside cells!
4/ Now add as a co-founder Robert Tjian who was head of HHMI (Howatd Hughes Medical Institute) and built and exited multibillion biotech companies...
5/ And then to really kick things into bezerk biotech mode—lets recruit one of the most esteemed scientific entrepreneurs in history...as CEO:
Roger Perlmutter —ex head of all R&D at Merck, helped lead discovery for KEYTRUDA and previously ran R&D at Amgen...
6/ And let's keep it all stealth secret for as long as we can—and launch a Series A of $148M for EIKON.
This is SCI-FI x SCI-FACT with live-cell super-resolution microscopy for drug discovery.
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If we invent edible Flubber, there may come a day when we can survive by eating Flubber and also create a sustainably green economy building breathing Flubber buildings or entire towns out of it and even one day give Flubber consciousness too and expand it to a multiverse.
If we invent teleportation, there may come a day when real estate no longer matters as the majority of our time will be in the 'etherverse' and we will have solved the 'distance problem' and will need to rethink time. Something to think about.
If civilization is able to connect itself to itself via neuralinks, into a global consciousness we would be able to anticipate each others needs even before they are communicated and make life peaceful and stress-free. As so much pain comes from not being understood.
A few days ago something HISTORIC and not yet widely appreciated happened 460km/285 mi away from YOU...
At the end of the Cold War in 1998 US + Russia teamed up on the ISS (international space station) after 40 years of fiercely competing in a Space Race...
2/ A few days ago on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin (Russian) to be the 1st in space...
..Putin symbolically gave a speech + rallied Russia to "maintain its status as one of the leading SPACE powers"
And announced Russia pulling out of the ISS by the next 4 years to...
3/ ...🇷🇺partner with CHINA 🇨🇳
to team on space including a lunar base
🚀🌑(on the moon or orbiting it)
after rejecting NASA🇺🇸 offer to team on this exact topic.
1/ This is the #1 reason why cold war with China is inevitable
The Left should be outraged by Muslim concentrating camps, human rights abuses and environmental disregard. The Right by expansionist military actions, hacking + corporate theft. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2/ US solidarity won't come from Kumbaya.
We are a diverse deeply divided people with 1-2 generation long respites of internecine animosity redirected from each other to a common enemy...
1940s: Nazi Germany
1980s: Communist Russia
2020s: ?
I explain why neither Vietnam in the 60s/70s nor Japan in the 80s/90s nor Al Qaesa/ISIS in 00s/10s United our divided States. None were all 3 alien, large + threatening joincolossus.com/episodes/70111…
We will be revealing several new cutting-edge ventures in this theme (hardware + software) and announcing large financings for existing Lux family cos
2/ There are TWO main drivers for the theme
“TECH of SCIENCE”
1. Directional arrow of progress
-cutting-edge new scientific tools + automation + robotics + networked global scientists, layers of ML/AI on top of data produced from robotic lab workcells + scientific workflows—
3/ The other main thrust behind the Lux theme
“TECH of SCIENCE”
2. Geopolitics
We are in a new cold war with China
The main source of
hard power = .mil/defense
soft power = media (exporting culture) + PRESTIGE
PRESTIGE comes via scientific discovery...
which comes via tools