I entirely agree with this statement, NOT with the optimistic conclusion:

As an investor, DNA means opportunity: huge leaps in efficiency, innovation, design and scale of drugs, foods, fuels, manufactured hard goods, even information technology. Hard to even imagine all of it.

Where does the design and assessement of all those gimmicks will come from if not from the output of some infotech?
If we jump straight into all this tinkering with DNA we are headed for a disaster due to complexity mismanagement (blindness to unexpected side effects).
Not that I fear Gree n Goo like the silly Singularitarians do, the HUGE complex system of life has shown amazing resilience thru billions years and I am certain that it can withstand another catastrophic impact, some life will keep going on, but the cost, economic or otherwise (loss of life forms including the human one), can be dear.
The “impedance mismatch” between the variety of the wannabe “controllers” and the variety of the purportedly controlled system will strike hard.
I commented before on this elsewhere.
Hard to even imagine all of it, indeed, cretinous monkeys!