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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Now, mining technology to solve the world's problems.
NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman recently traveled to California and filed this report on some innovative thinkers. It's part of his ongoing reporting Making Sense of financial news.
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CRAIG VENTER, CEO, Synthetic Genomics: If all these dreams come true -- and I hope these people are right -- then we will solve everything. Nobody has the solutions in hand right now.
We have potential solutions. We don't have ways to provide the fuel, we don't have ways to provide the food, clean water, medicine for seven billion people now. How are we going to do it for eight, nine, 10 billion people in the coming decades?
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