I'm continually surprised at how short sighted people are when it comes to research and new fields. I'm sure these are the same people who couldn't imagine how

I'm continually surprised at how short sighted people are when it comes to research and new fields. I'm sure these are the same people who couldn't imagine how a computer could possibly be useful for anything other than mainframe applications 20 years ago. I get that the complexity of even understanding human biology is overwhelming[1] much less fixing it when it goes wrong. The reality is that the human genomic project kicked off a revolution in biology that has brought the price of sequencing down 100,000 fold per megabase of DNA [2] and that has opened up a whole host of applications. All life as we know it is based on DNA, many human diseases such as cancer are genetic diseases. Have some vision, don't be like Senator Chuck Schumer who said that releasing DARPAnet (basis of internet today) to public domain would be a wast of taxpayer's money [3]. [1] http://www.genomicglossaries.com/images/shenemangenome.gif http://www.genomicglossaries.com/images/shenemangenome.gif [2] http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/ http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/ [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16ztsk/til_in_1991_when_president_bush_proposed_placing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16ztsk/til_in...