We stand at the forefront of a pivotal moment in human innovation—where AI and CRISPR gene editing converge to power what can only be described as the 21st century’s biological revolution.  A New Industrial Epoch  Just as coal and steam powered the 19th-century Industrial Revolution and electricity and chemistry fuelled the economic and technological might of the 20th, today AI and gene editing are driving a new wave of innovation that will define our era. These are not incremental improvements, but general-purpose transformational technologies with the power to reshape entire industries, displacing legacy approaches, and giving rise to entirely new