We're devoted at this conference to looking at how we can best pair scientists with each other and with the communities to get this technology available quickly.

The conference is bringing the scientists and the researchers into the region where the biggest problem lies.

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.