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The future, it seemed, needed a Martian or two or a Triffid or two.

As president, Donald Trump would prove to be both a Martian and a Triffid.

He went so far as to name an outsize thistle that grew in his vegetable garden “the Triffid.”

There is something of the triffid about them.

Regulation that prevents The Next Big Thing is truly a lost opportunity—many once-touted biotech innovations have been killed in the crib by over-regulation: Triffid flax, Flvr Savr tomato, NewLeaf Potatoes and almost the entire field of transgenic animals.