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Does this estimate take into account the continued acceleration of science and medicine? Just one interesting metric that comes to mind is the cost of genome s
by MildlySerious 6y ago
Does this estimate take into account the continued acceleration of science and medicine?
Just one interesting metric that comes to mind is the cost of genome sequencing, which has dropped 6 orders of magnitude over 20 years[1]
[1] https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequencing-Costs-Data https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequen...
- Causality1 6y agoYep, and we're finding out just how limited raw genomic data is for understanding biology. Epigenetics plays a vastly larger role than anyone expected and the newly-discovered field of bioelectric computation could turn out to be nearly as important as genetics itself. We're still at the stage where what we don't know keeps getting bigger and bigger.