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Biotech / Medical : Biotech Momentum- Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: biowa who wrote (4)	12/23/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 55

Bit of a ramble...still groggy after my last graveyard, enjoy: Wouldn't it be great for the biotech sciences if even a small fraction of the internet frenzy spilled over here. Imagine if molecular biologists and chemists actually could making the sort of living that computer science people can make these days. Sounds crazy, we have become so used to programmers having the hot jobs, would be cool if the rest of the really smart kids could be compensated that way too after university. Of course money isn't that important when you live at least as high as the average middle american lifestyle, the rest is gravy. I don't need a boat and a Lexus--not much additional happiness will be got if I trade my '72 Nova in for an Explorer for instance. My 1600 square foot house is a hell of an upgrade from the average middle class house thirty years ago. I'm a public servant, good living but never will be rich, and that is fair--but I digress, this isn't about me, I just trade stocks as a hobby, I'm not the one creating anything like these biotech brainiacs. Imagine if these brilliant people could work as hard as they do, generate this amazing science, and then actually get properly rewarded for it! I'm not saying that if all the internet hype spilled into biotech stocks that they'd cure cancer--but maybe a few more types of cancer. You get the idea...it's a good thing. Actually, what has happened so far, with some MSFT wealth going to good causes--that innoculation program, that is a very good first step. Imagine a thousand Soros' out there too. I'm very optimistic for our civilization in the next thousand years. There is even a chance the microbes wont outsmart/outmutate us. The meek may inherit the earth, but it will be a good fight.