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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Anyway to answer you question, CRISPR gene editing is revolutionary and will have major impact.

Nah, crispr is a useful tool that will have an impact, and it has already been revolutionary in lab environments, but it doesn't have much more to offer. There will be a few more medicines that use it and I'm sure someone will call it a revolution, but cell therapies will truly revolutionize medicine -- which in fairness to AI will be enabled by generative protein design.

My mentor will probably win a Nobel prize in four or five years for the immunotherapy work he's doing as it'll have a big impact on a lot of cancers, but it still won't be as big as cell therapies.