Answer Quote by Ray Kurzweil

No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to…

— Donald Phillip Verene

Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed…

— Joseph DeRisi

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to…

— Glenn Turner

In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses,…

— Martin Rees

“A “better” biological virus — like a computer virus — will perhaps just make its host sick, but still well enough to keep spreading the virus”

— Peter H. Gregory

The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first…

— Carl Zimmer

New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including nanotechnologies, combat…

— Peter Maurer

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the…

— Nathan Wolfe

Let's make the best use of technology to work for patient safety as well as to fight the rising problem of non-communicable diseases, a…

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

— Margaret Chan

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

— Geoffrey Hinton

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much…

— Scott D. Anthony