4 ms·
Economies of scale. Shiny hubcap manufacturers will very generously subsidise the R&D for other, more worthy users of a technology. They aren't competitive or i
by jdietrich 2y ago
Economies of scale. Shiny hubcap manufacturers will very generously subsidise the R&D for other, more worthy users of a technology. They aren't competitive or independent, they're synergistic. The billions of dollars we "wasted" on making video games look more realistic gave us a revolution in high-performance computing that nobody could have created intentionally.
- refurb 2y agoEach gene therapy is a unique "medicine". There is little economy of scale, at least for the hardest part.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- ninjanomnom 2y agoThat's due to a lack of theory and useful abstractions in the tools used to modify genes. We're so early on in the development of that field that if this were computers, we'd still be assembling devices by arranging logic gates by hand. Custom cosmetic gene therapy is a great way to incentivize the better tools.
- refurb 2y agoNo, not really. Genes are far more complex than inserting a sequence into a delivery mechanism.