★ Exclusive Interview ★
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Carolyn Veltri | March
8, 2000 | Issue 4.3
Dr. Desmond Thorne, founder and CEO of Thorne
Research Corporation, sits down with Future Frontier
for a rare, candid conversation about the next
frontier in human engineering. His vision for
merging biological systems with
quantum-computational architecture may sound like
science fiction. His lab's results are anything
but.
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