Just a few months back I had gone for dinner with my parents and their friends. At dinner, the ladies kept talking about organic food and the health factors it includes. About one week later, one of the ladies from the same group told me about how I should turn vegan. About two weeks after that another one of the ladies from the group told me about how it's not safe to buy fruits because they're heavily fertilized and that it's better to buy packaged fruits. All of this came across as a trend to me. BioBusiness has become a trend, a status quo. As people are becoming more and more informed, as ICT is taking over the world, biobusiness opportunities are increasing exponentially. The more people learn about the harmful effects of antibiotics, the more they tend to shift towards herbal and traditional medicines. The more people learn of how the industries are harming the environment, the more these industries will take precaution and take steps for safe disposal of their wastes. The more people learn about how fertilized crops are harmful, the more they will tend towards organic food. In short, the more people learn, the more biobusiness will grow. As peoples' awareness increases, so will the popularity of biobusiness.
As such, there is constant need for innovation in this field. As people are moving from rural to urban areas, their mindset is changing and they're becoming more and more open minded. They want to learn and move towards a healthier planet. As prof mentioned in class, innovation doesn't only mean doing research in a lab. Even if you sit under a tree and think, that's also considered innovation. With growing healthcare concerns and diseases, biobusiness innovation is becoming a need more than a desire. We have seen how in movies they use new technologies to solve criminal cases or to solve murder cases. As a kid I used to think it's all fiction. However, today, fiction is becoming fact! Cancer which was considered incurable can now be cured. Technology is advancing. AIDS which was considered a taboo is now widely being accepted as a disease. Peoples' mindset is also advancing.
BioBusiness has it's advantages. However, today it is being taken to another level altogether. Doctors are practicing genetic engineering to tamper with the genes of couples to produce kids with desired traits. As a result, there have been cases of unhealthy and even mentally ill kids being produced. What is happening is that the child is becoming an experimental tool. On the flip side, the practices by doctors have made prosthetic a reality today. Stem cells are being used as medicines, bringing about miracles which couldn't have been perceived a few years back. Like everything else, biobusiness has its good and bad. Let's hope that the world capitalizes on the good and not the bad.
On a whole, this topic didn't interest me much as I haven't really seen or personally experienced the effects of biobusiness.
Overall, my rating of the class: 6.5/10 :)
No comments:
Post a Comment